Installing 6300 Pc Remote Control Software; Installing The Necessary Windows Services - Orban OPTIMOD 6300 Operating Manual

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INSTALLATION

Installing 6300 PC Remote Control Software

Installing the Necessary Windows Services

F) It is wise to disconnect from PC Remote and then to press the S
ton on your Optimod [step (B) on page 2-40]. This is to test the ability of your
Optimod to synchronize to the selected timeserver and to ensure that your
Optimod's clock is set accurately.
NOTE: Manually setting your Optimod's clock via Set Time, Set Date, Daylight
Time, and the remote contact closure Reset to Hour and Reset to Midnight will
not work when the automatic synchronization function is active. To inactivate
this function (thereby permitting manual setting to work), set the S
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This section briefly summarizes the procedure for installing 6300 PC Remote soft-
ware on existing 6300s. If required, you will find more detailed instructions in the
.pdf file automatically installed on your computer by Orban's installer program,
Setup6300_x.x.x.x.exe, where "x.x.x.x" represents the software version you are
installing. (For example, for version 1.0 software, this would be 1.0.0.0.)
The PC Remote software is supplied on a CD shipped with your 6300. You can also
download it from ftp.orban.com/6300.
Instructions for using the PC Remote software are found starting on page 3-57.
The 6300 PC Remote application uses Windows' built-in communications and net-
working services to deal with the low-level details necessary to communicate with
the 6300's serial port. (These services are also used to upgrade your 6300's firmware
when updates are available from Orban.) The exact process will vary, depending on
how you wish to set up the communications. That is:

If you want to communicate through a local PC, you have two choices:
 Establish a connection between a serial (COM) port of the PC and the COM
port of your 9300 through a null modem cable and use Windows Direct Se-
rial Connect to make the basic connection.
 Use a crossover Ethernet cable to communicate to your PC through its
Ethernet port.

If you want to communicate through a pair of modems, you will use the Win-
dows Dial-Up networking service to make the connection.
You must install the appropriate communications services in Windows (if they
are not already installed) before you can run 6300 Remote software. You may
therefore need to have access to the Windows install disk(s)—or have their im-
age copied onto your computer's hard drive—before you attempt to use the
6300 PC Remote application.
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