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6.2. USING THE CONFIG SOFTWARE
⚠ WARNING: Care should be taken when remotely controlling/configuring the unit as values
set intentionally, or unintentionally, will immediately affect the operation of the ID5001P. E.g.
enabling relay inversion, although a useful test, will cause the relay to switch and signal an event
when no event is active. It is recommended that the user familiarise themselves with the
operation of the ID5001P and the config software in a test environment before using it to
configure a unit in the field.
To run the application double click on the ID5001P Config desktop icon.
The config application opens in a window that contains multiple tabs that can
be selected to view the differnet types of information available. The function of
each tab is described in the following sections.
6.2.1.
SETUP TAB
When the application launches the initial tab will
be the Setup tab.
Ensure the USB to RS485 cable has been
plugged into the computer and any driver
installation has completed.
PORT - Select the appropriate COM Port from
the drop down list the click OPEN to open the
port. If the port has opened successfully a
message will be displayed in the status bar
located in the bottom left corner of the
application window.
BAUD RATE – Currently 9600 is the only
supported baud rate.
SLAVE ADDRESS – If there are multiple devices on the RS485 bus then each will require to
have a unique slave address configured to allow communications to function correctly. The
default slave address configured for all devices at time of manufacture is 1. This text box allows
the user to select which slave device the software will be communicating with. Address 0 has a
special broadcast function which can be used to write data to all devices simultaneously, this
could be useful for synchronising date and time for example. Only write operations can use
broadcast, read operations are not possible as it is impossible to receive a response from all
slave devices simultaneously.
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