Setting The Auto-Identify Option; Setting The Auto-Wink Option; Selecting Units Of Measurement - Trane Rover Installation, Operation, And Programming

Configuring a Device
2. Click the General tab.
3. Type a rate between 5 and 90 seconds in the Active device status refresh rate field. Type
4. Click OK. The refresh rate is changed.

Setting the Auto-identify Option

You can use the Auto-identify option to identify a device in Rover. When the Auto-identify option
is enabled, pressing the service pin button on a device selects that device in the Active Group tree.
Note: Do not enable the Auto-identify option during discovery, or every device found attempts to
To set the Auto-identify option:
1. From the Tools menu, choose Options
2. Click the General tab.
3. Click to select the Auto-identify check box.
4. Click OK. The option is set.

Setting the Auto-wink Option

When the Auto-wink option is activated, Rover automatically winks a device on the active link when
you press the service pin button on that device.
Use the Auto-wink option when you want to determine if a device is communicating on the link,
but the device is a great distance from your laptop PC or is in a hard-to-reach area. If you press the
service pin button on a device and the status LED blinks, you know the device is communicating.
If the status LED does not blink, you know it's not communicating and you can keep working on it
without having to go back to your laptop PC.
To set the Auto-wink option:
1. From the Tools menu, choose Options
2. Click the General tab.
3. Click to select the Auto-wink check box.
4. Click OK. The option is set.

Selecting Units of Measurement

Rover can use inch-pound (I-P) units or the International System of Units (SI) for device plug-ins
that support both types of units (see
can also select a mixture of I-P and SI units. I-P units include pounds and degrees Fahrenheit, and
SI units include kilograms and degrees Celsius.
Selecting the International System of Units (SI) affects only device plug-ins that support SI. Rover
will continue to use inch-pound units for plug-ins that do not support SI. If you do not select a
system of measurement, Rover uses inch-pound units by default.
To select units of measurement:
1. From the Tools menu, choose Options
2. Click the Units tab
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0 (zero) if you don't want Rover to automatically refresh.
display its status in the workspace, slowing down the discovery process.
Do not enable the Auto-identify option when several people are working on the LonTalk link.
A service pin press by anyone causes the focus on your laptop PC to shift to that device,
which may cause you to lose any changes you were making.
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