Lookout - National Instruments FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual

Lookout

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The FP-1600 was designed to integrate easily with National Instruments
Lookout 4.0. You can access the FP-1600 the same way you would access
another desktop computer running Lookout 4.0. You can access the
channel data, ranges, attributes, and commands from Lookout, as well as
several control variables, such as Reset and Snapshot.
To access the FP-1600 with Lookout 3.8 or earlier, use the FieldPoint OPC
server. You cannot use the FieldPoint Lookout driver class with the
FP-1600.
To use the FP-1600 with Lookout 4.0, follow these steps:
1. Configure your FP-1600 from FieldPoint Explorer, as described in the
Configure Your Hardware with FieldPoint Explorer
chapter.
2. Start Lookout, and create a new process or open an existing one.
3. Register the FP-1600 as a networked computer in Lookout. Select
Object»Object Explorer or Object»Connection Browser from the
menu bar and right-click on the Network icon. Choose Register
network computer from the pop-up menu. Type the hostname or
IP Address of the FP-1600 in the Computer name field and click
on OK.
4. When you create a Lookout object or expression, you can connect it to
data on the FP-1600. In the Insert Expression dialog box, click on
Network to browse the registered computers and FP-1600s. Click on
the hostname or IP address of the FP-1600 and browse to the desired
data. Figure 3-8 shows how you would access the data on Channel 0
of an FP-DO-401 connected to an FP-1600 named
fp1600.natinst.com.
Chapter 3
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Hardware and Software Configuration
section of this
FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual