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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual www.icpdas.com Warranty All products manufactured by ICP DAS are under warranty regarding defective materials for a period of one year from the date of delivery to the original purchaser. Warning ICP DAS assumes no liability for damages resulting from the use of this product.
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual Document Revision Version Date Description of changes Rev1.0 2019-05-17 First release for ALM-06-WF ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 2...
1. Introduction The ALM-06-WF have WLAN connection complies with the IEEE802.11b/g/n standards. With the popularity of 802.11 network infrastructure, the ALM-06-WF make an easy way to incorporate wireless connectivity into monitoring and configuration. They also support Modbus TCP protocol and the network encryption configuration, which makes perfect integration to SCADA software and offer easy and safe access for users from anytime and anywhere.
WEP and WPA are common types of security that are used to protect wireless networks. When WEP or WPA is turned on, ALM-06-WF uses a special security key combination to allow only devices that know this key to connect to its wireless network.
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual Table 1-2: I/O Specification Digital Input Channels Input Type Dry Contact: Sink Off Voltage Level: Open Dry Contact Level On Voltage Level: Close to GND Photo-Isolation 3750 VDC Input Condition Pulse Width must > 150mSec or more...
Alarm Status Red LED 2.1.2 Connector Pin Define Terminal NO Pin Name Wire Color Brown Orange Yellow Green Blue DI.GND Gray Black Black Line Out Purple White White Figure 2-3: I/O Connector of ALM-06-WF ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 10...
AP mode. Figure 2-4: Reset button locate in the bottom side of ALM-06-WF Dimensions The diagrams below provide the dimensions of the ALM-06-WF to use in defining your enclosure specifications. All dimensions are in millimeters. Figure 2-5: Dimension of the ALM-06-WF ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 11...
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual Wire Connection 2.4.1 Wire connection define The following describe the wire color & function Figure 2-6: Wire color & function 2.4.2 I/O connection 2.4.2.1 Digital Input (DI) wiring Figure 2-7: DI Dry contact wiring ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 12...
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 2.4.2.2 Relay Output wiring Figure 2-8: Relay Output wiring 2.4.2.3 Line Out wiring Figure 2-9: Line Out wiring 2.4.2.4 Power Input Figure 2-10: Power Input ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 13...
The following is the main screens provided by ALM Utility, these utility tools can be thought as a useful tool for configuration and monitoring on the ALM-06-WF. It supplies several functions, such as Monitoring, Configuration, Connection, Wi-Fi setting and F/W upgrade, etc..,...
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 3.1.2 Controller Status Show the connected controller information, user define Locate string, RSSI strength, Device IP & Static IP button for changing device IP in STA mode. 3.1.3 DI/DO Status & Control Show the DI/Relay Output status, The value can be read(DI) or set(Relay Output) in this area.
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 3.1.5 Icon Button ICON function Open the Setup Screen (Android versions Setup Setup function under the icon) Red Led blinking, use to find the connected Find Controller Controller Refresh status Refresh Only Android Device, Menu Include setup, FW Version & About.
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 3.1.6 Configuration/Setup Figure 3-2: ALM Utility setup page Click apply icon to save each subject’s setting, after finish all setting click to make device take effect on new setting AP: SSID Name 1. Default Controller’s SSID in Wi-Fi AP mode, will be ALM-06-xxxxxx.
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual Static IP: IP: Specific an IP that is not been used. Mask: Default will be 255.255.255.0. Gateway: Basically define in the AP you are going to connect. Service Set Identifier: Connected devices must be the same SSID, SSID SSID length must not exceed 31 characters.
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 3.2 Station Mode (STA) IP scanner There are lot of free IP scanner tools in both Windows & Android OS, for example “Advanced IP Scanner” for Windows, “Network Analyzer” for Android, those are high performance scanner tools on each OS.
3.3 Alarm Mode & Audio Editor ALM-06-WF contain 8 kinds of alarm mode, Mode 0 ~ 3 are DI1~DI6 in single independence channel trigger, in DIx channel priority, the priority of DI channel is DI6 > DI5... > DI1.
Read Device button, in Device Edit mode audio file cannot be read back, can only be modify or recover. Write Device button will download all your setting & audio files into ALM-06-WF device through Wi-Fi. Also you can copy all the file inside your project directory to the Micro SD Card.
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File No. play back, select Play Source (Audio file original location) or Play Project (Audio file in project) or Play Device (Audio file in ALM-06-WF device’s SD Card, only when Device Edit selected), click File No. and press Play button to play, and Stop button to break playback.
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (3) Alarm Config: Frist you need to select Alarm Mode, then you can assign audio File No. for each alarm channel from combo box, playback Repeat count & Alarm Output Relay. To simulation the alarm channel audio playback, select the channel from combo box, press Channel test button to play, and Stop to break the playback, show as below.
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual Make a Micro SD from project 3.4.1 Copy all the file to the MicroSD root directory where your project directory locate, this will be the same as Write Device from project. Insert a New MicroSD 3.4.2 To start a new MicroSD, please insert to a PC before use it, this will make Microsoft OS fill the correct capacity into the MicroSD.
When alarm in playback process, any input trigger will ignore. The highest DIx channel priority input will take place after the previous playback complete. Figure 3-8: ALM-06-WF Mode 0 Mode 1: Channel Trigger-Trigger Input priority Playback DI1 to DI6 playback in single independence trigger of 6 channels.
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Playback will repeat when input are not release & will stop immediately when input released. When multi trigger in same time the highest DIx channel priority will take place Figure 3-6: ALM-06-WF Mode 2 Mode 3: Channel Trigger- Memory Once Playback ...
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When alarm in playback process, any input trigger will ignore. The highest binary channel priority input will take place after the previous playback complete, DI6 is the most highest channel. Figure 3-8: ALM-06-WF Mode 4 Mode 5: Binary Trigger-Trigger Input priority Playback ...
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Playback will repeat when input are not release & will stop immediately when input released. When multi trigger in same time the highest binary channel priority will take place, DI6 is the most highest channel. Figure 3-10: ALM-06-WF Mode 6 Mode 7: Binary Trigger- Memory Once Playback ...
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 4. Application Users can use a Computer or Smart Device to communicate with the ALM devices in the application. It can complete the purpose of control to wireless network by this way. Figure 4-1: ALM + PC/Laptop/Smart Device application architecture 4.1 Connection with Modbus TCP utility...
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ALM-06-WF User’s Manual e. Use the function code "0x01", and set the Reference Number as "0x00", Bit Count as "0x01" to get the Relay Output value. Figure 4-3: Relay Status reading screen g. Use the function code "0x05", and set the Reference Number as "0x00", value as "0xFF"...
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 5. Modbus Applications The ALM-06-WF include a Modbus port that allows you to access terminals data via Wi-Fi and communicates using a master-slave technique in which only one device (the master) can initiate transactions (called queries). The other devices (slaves) respond by supplying the requested data to the master, or by taking the action requested in the query.
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 5.2 Protocol Description The Modbus protocol defines a simple protocol data unit independent of the underlying communication layers. The mapping of Modbus protocol on network can introduce some additional fields on the application data unit. Modbus/TCP Application Data Unit...
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 5.2.2 Function Code The function code field of a Modbus data unit is coded in one byte. Valid codes are in the range of 1 ... 255 decimal (the range 128 - 255 is reserved and used or exception responses).
ALM-06-WF User’s Manual 5.2.4 Response If no error occurs related to the Modbus function requested in a properly received Modbus PDU (Protocol Data Unit) the data field of a Modbus response from a server to a client contains the data requested. If an error related to the Modbus function requested occurs, the field contains an exception code that the server application can use to determine the next action to be taken.
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32-bits items at a time; therefore, each of these data items will fit within 2 register that is read. Value Word Word 0x12345678 0x5678 0x1234 Table 5-5: A 32-bits double word item 5.3 ALM-06-WF Address Mapping Address Descriptions Range Access Type 00001 Digital Output 0=OFF, 1=ON 00002...
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40001 Volume Level (0~10) 16bit Word Table 5-10: FC16 Write multiple AO address (4xxxx) Technical Support If you have problems about using the ALM-06-WF controller, please contact ICP DAS Product Support. Email: service@icpdas.com ALM-06-WF User’s Manual (Rev1.0, Feb./2019) ------------- 36...