S-Config 2
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1. Communication Saving options Devices detection Add date and time to the default name Figure 10 4 Program settings Registers templates group There is a setting Add date and time to the default name Checking it causes that during saving a template file the current date and time will be appended to the suggested name This option is useful when the user wants to create unique configurations and protects against accidental overwriting existing one 16 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 System requirements Operating system Windows XP 32 bit or later ua processor Pentium AMD 600 MHZ or faster 128 MB of RAM or more I 50 MB or more free disk space Designed for COMPATIBLE wH monitor with min resolution SVGA 800x600 windows ULA CD ROM or DVD ROM _ keyboard and pointing device e g mouse 17 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 18 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 19 F 5 simex SIMEX Sp z 0 0 ul Wielopole 7 80 556 Gdansk Poland tel 48 58 762 07 77 fax 48 58 762 07 70 http www simex pl e mail info simex pl2. This process may take a while because the program must read values of all registers available for the device but later writing changes entered by the user may affect modified registers only what is much faster process W io 0707 File Tools Help Devices Registers 5 Detect all Readdressing mode Zz Filter ess Register alue ni Details 03h InputPoint Min value 0 10h InputType Max value 0 000 11h InputChar inear Decimal point position 12h InputFilter dasa rope nn E 14h InputLow register 15h InputHigh 18h TempOffset 19h InputConn A1h OutputLow A2h OutputHigh A5h OutputAlarm Device informations Current passive 4 20mA sol Devi SPT 86L IEEE 1 SS Serial number 0000 1112 6 1 ware v1 00 b Read dh write v Changed only v Read all after writing RTD 16 bit 2 3 4 wires TC mV Figure 8 1 List of registers and their values read from the selected device Each of the displayed register consists of a short name which may include a register number compatible with the manual of the device Displaying these numbers can be turned off from the program settings see section 10 3 Besides the name each register has a current value and unit When the user selects any of them he will see more detailed information such as the scope for value changes and more extensive description of the function which it serves It appears in the Register informati
3. COM1 PR TRS 1 1 TRS 01a 2 SPT 86L W COM4 sPT 61 1 SUR 94 3 S SRT 73 X3 4 SRT 73 X3 IP65 5 G SRT 73 XA a SRT 73 XA IP65 7 v Figure 5 1 List of related products Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 These products relate to selected device and are products of the same type or cooperating products Information about products is downloaded from the manufacturer s website By clicking on the selected product user can open informative web page with downloadable resources like manuals software updates etc The language of the opened page depends on the settings of the manufacturer s website 6 DEVICE INFORMATION Some devices can provide detailed information about their properties This information are in particular e device type e serial number e firmware version e type of inputs e type of outputs e number of relays If the device supports this information it can be found in the Product Information area 4 Figure 6 1 Device informations rent passive 4 20mA isol Device type SPT S6L Serial number 0000 1112 Firmware v1 00 b 1 RTD 16 bit 2 3 4 wires TC mV Figure 6 1 Additional information returned by the device 7 AREA OF EVENT MESSAGES Any information that the program doing are printed in the Area of event messages 3 This makes possible to identify any problems and anomalies in communication with devices By default this area is hidden T
4. Repeats Data format Figure 10 1 Program settings Communication group The Used ports list contains all available ports in the PC Ports which are checked will be used by the program Each of them can have individual settings such as e Baudrate defines the speed of communication with devices on the network Devices with set different speed will not be detected and configure them will not be possible e Timeout the waiting time for a device response In the case of devices detection may be replaced by setting Quick detection of devices discussed in section 10 2 e Repeats the number of retries that the program should do if an error occurs in communication with a device e Data format specifies a frame format of the data used for communication This parameter is for information only 10 2 DEVICES DETECTION In Devices detection group can be found settings on various subjects of the program Figure 10 2 13 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 s a 1 i 5 p Communication Devices detection A Devices detection Appearance Registers templates Quick detection of devices Timeout 180 gt ms Address range 13 F 253 Prevent creation of new COM ports for devices of the same type need administrator rights k Cancel Figure 10 2 Program settings Devices detection group Devices detection section responsible for settings related to the detection o
5. S srren eena era 13 102 COMMUNICA TION ES ERE ES T ER ERNE ken 23 10 2 DEVICE S DETECTION ee ea ee R EO T e rere la TO OSAFFLEARANE ee ee area 15 104 REGISTERS TEMPLATE ner nee ee 16 Explanation of symbols used in the manual N This symbol denotes especially important characteristics of the software operation Read any information regarding this symbol carefully D This symbol indicates additional information that may help operate the program Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 1 GENERAL CHARACTERISTIC The S Config 2 program is used for the simultaneous detection of devices in multiple Modbus RTU networks Each detected device may return additional information about its parameters such as its type what address it is located in the network and the additional parameters displays in the Device information 4 In addition to detection devices manufactured by Simex the program allows user to change the configuration of most of them If the program can change the configuration of detected device a list of its registers will show and the user can modify them Current list of configurable devices can be displayed from menu Supported devices gt Configurable devices 2 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE The program consists of several areas for specific functions Their explanation is shown on Figure 2 1 Help gt File Tools Help Event log Time tegory Description 1 D evice amp Detect all Readdre
6. program doesn t have information what devices are available at any of the listed ports The first thing that user should do is to set parameters of the COM ports to be scanned To do this go to the settings using the menu Tools gt Settings select the position Communication uncheck unused ports and adjust the parameters of the rest For more information on port settings see section 10 1 After completion and apply settings the program is ready to start searching for devices This process is discussed in section 4 4 SCANNING THE NETWORK OF DEVICES The program has the ability to scan the network of devices in two modes In detection mode the program searches networks on selected or all displayed COM ports by checking the availability of device at each address and if any is detected the program will automatically recognize it and add to the list In the readdressing mode the user can assign unique address in an automatic way to all devices on the network Regardless of the selected scan mode after the completion of this process the program will create a list of devices that will be saved to the time of next scan Last saved devices list is also remembered if the program will restart 4 1 DETECTION MODE This mode allows the user to find all devices in one or more networks by scanning each address of Modbus RTU protocol In order to accelerate the network scanning this process is done independently for each COM port The range of addr
7. the selected device Access to management of templates can be obtained from the Read Write value templates 11 area Template files have the scg extension and are compatible with templates supported by the SMConfig program It is convenient because if user has already made templates in this program he can use them to modify registers of the device in the S Config 2 9 1 SAVING TO THE TEMPLATE If user makes appropriate changes in registers of the device and would like to keep these values for the future it can be done by saving the current state of registers as a template of values To do this click the Save button A dialogue box appears for specify the template name and location to save it Template name is suggested by the program and includes the device type and the date and time of saving what protects user against accidental overwriting existing file Automatically adding the date and time part to the filename can be disabled in the ij program settings see section 10 4 regardless that at the time of writing are shown on the list or not It s also not required to write changes to the device before saving to the template file Appropriate modifications of registers will be included i In the template are stored values of all registers that can be changed on the device 9 2 READING FROM THE TEMPLATE Register values of the selected device can be restored from previously saved or prepared template see section 9
8. 3 Register values loaded from the file are applied to the current displayed values 9 3 STRUCTURE OF THE TEMPLATE Templates created by the S Config 2 are in the text format and can be modified in any text editor such as Notepad A single file relates to a single device General the structure of the file consists of comments register numbers and values assigned to them Construction of sample template is shown in Figure 9 1 where comments are marked in green and numbers and values of the registers are marked in red 11 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 Device Name and version er description of the program Creation tmestamp S Coffig 2 v2 0 0 0 of tempate Date 2012 03 28 15 34 Device_0x2061 Pt100 4 20mA onverter Device identifier Register name Register number Register value InputFilter 0x0012 2 Inputoffset 0x0018 1 Figure 9 1 Content of scg file type created by S Config 2 From the perspective of read the template by the program are important only rows with red values Additionally is checked the device ID if any exists to alert the user when he try to open a template intended for another device Comments in the file may appear as separate lines or at the end of the line with data Comment always begin with a double character slash and is valid until the end of line Registe
9. Assisting the automation 3 SIME xX industry since 1986 s Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 e Version 2 0 6 or higher e Designed for Simex devices provided with Modbus RTU RS 485 MODBUSRTU Read the user s manual carefully before starting to use the unit or software Producer reserves the right to implement changes without prior notice 2012 12 20 S Config 2_QGUSXEN_v 1 00 002 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 CONTENTS 1 GENERAL CHARACTERS TIG c oce zi cia late en dE 3 2 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ciri a R a ele 3 3 FIRST LAUNCH OF THE APPLICATION u a a 4 4 SCANNING THE NETWORK OF DEVICGES nn ea 5 d DETE HON MODE ae OO ne EE ene ee ee AO A EE eet ee ee eee 5 4 2 READDRESSINO MODE rise kaka Ee RA A PE dO Rawa cada dE 6 5 RELATED PRODUCTS nun ae 6 6 DEVICE INFORMATION 7 AREA OF EVENT MESSAGES uns neeee iee Eee 7 8 THE LIST OF REGISTERS sorces Senne ea 8 8 1 THE LIST OF REGISTERS VIEWS eeik dE Aa ESA dE 8 82 SBARGHING REG IS FERS raei rene ANa EDER ZZ AO er ere rere 9 8 3 CHANGING THE REGISTER VALUE SELE EDER DES REDER 9 84 READING FROM THE DEVIGE 22 022 nee ee 10 8 3 WRITING TO THE DEVICE 2er 10 9 TEMPLATES OF REGISTER VALUES zawali ko aaea a id kpi 11 ST SAVING TO THE TEMPLATE nenne en ee eee eer eee eee 17 9 2 READING FROM THE TEMFLA E ES FEE EEG ESS LEE EEEE EEEE 11 93 STRUCTURE OF THE TEMPLATE ideo DE ED EA E EAEE EE 11 10 PROGRAM SETTING
10. checking existing addresses and set them one by one of the range Address range specified in the settings see section 10 2 For devices where there is a possibility to set the address using its configuration menu e g SIMPACT series devices should set it to FFh 255 and wait until S Config 2 detects such device If it is impossible to set the device address to FFh it can also achieved by set the address 00h Once detected one device the program is ready to detect another on FFh or 00h address User must ensure that no more than one device at a time has address FFh or 00h Otherwise none of the devices is detected and in extreme cases it can lead to damage their RS 485 interfaces Devices that don t have the keyboard should have a special button that allows user to force set FFh address Brand new devices of this type have set FEh address which protects them from the automatic readdressing To readdress such device user must 1 set the device in detection mode by pressing and holding for a few seconds until LED lights up button to force the address 2 then release the button 3 after about 1 second that button was released the device should return to its normal mode running state with new assigned address 5 RELATED PRODUCTS If computer is connected to the Internet and was selected one of the devices on the list it will show a panel containing a list of related products Figure 5 1 Related products Device Address
11. ers there are software connections and because to maintain their full synchronization is not possible to read only selected ones Read I z i Changed only Figure 8 5 Reading values of registers from the device 8 5 WRITING TO THE DEVICE After modify values of selected registers changes can be saved to the device This can be done by clicking the Write button located in the Read Write registers 3 area Figure 8 6 A Write ee jg Changed only Figure 8 6 Writing changed values of registers to the device Unchecked Changed only option cause that values of all registers will write to the device regardless they have changed or not Unchecking this option is especially useful if user wants to configure multiple devices of the same type using prepared template without read every time current values of every device More information about templates of values can be found in section 9 Checking Read all after writing causes reading current values of all registers of the device after each write This option is especially useful when the change of value in one register can affect on values in other registers 10 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 9 TEMPLATES OF REGISTER VALUES The S Config 2 program supports templates of register values This feature allows to save the device configuration as files from which user can quickly restore the registers settings at any time for
12. esses that will be tested user can specify in the settings described in section 10 2 Regardless of settings devices with addresses FEh 254 and FFh 255 or 0 are always tried to discover To start detection of devices on all available COM ports click Detect all button Figure 4 1 Devices a Stop Device Address COM1 Devices 0 cOM3 Devices 2 COM Devices 1 Figure 4 1 Detection of devices in multiple networks simultaneously It is also possible to detect devices on the selected port only To do this click one of the ports on the list open its context menu and click Start detection command All detected devices are automatically saved If some devices were not detected it may mean that responses that they sends reach to the program too late so user can try to increase the time for response of the quick detection or completely disable it For detailed description of this feature see section 10 2 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 4 2 READDRESSING MODE In this mode user can assign unique addresses to all devices on the network in the automatic way Figure 4 2 Stop Device Address COM1 Devices 0 COM3 Devices 1 COM7 Devices 0 Figure 4 2 List of devices during readdressing mode In this mode the program automatically searches devices on the network at FFh address Once such a device is detected program automatically assign it a new address The program is not
13. f devices You can find here the following settings 14 Address range Specifies the range of Modbus RTU addresses to be tested during searching devices or will be used for automatic readdressing Quick detection of devices Enabling this option causes that the time for response the device in detection mode will be reduced to a fixed timeout set in the field below This setting ignores some parameters of the COM port such as the number of repeats Repeats and waiting for response Timeout Number of repeats will be fixed to 1 Set the proper response time affects for the speed of network scanning If this time is too short it may happen that not all devices are detected and in extreme cases nothing The user should then increase the timeout or disable this option Prevent creation of new COM ports for devices of the same type When the user connects to the computer a new USB device or change its USB port the system will recognize it as a device that had not been installed previously and will run the installation wizard of new drivers It creates a new virtual COM port Sometimes there is a need to configure in S Config 2 multiple USB devices one after the other which creates a virtual COM port e g SPT 61 installing drivers and create a new port number for each of them would be tedious Checking this option causes the driver will be installed for the first device only Use this option carefully and only temporarily Checking
14. it cause lack of AN using multiple USB devices of the same type connected to a computer at the same time For example several converters USB RS 485 will be seen by the same number of virtual COM port which can cause unexpected errors in communication or operation only one of them Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 10 3 APPEARANCE In the Appearance group can be adjust the settings of how to display the program elements Figure 10 3 r Communication Registers be Devices detection Show numbers of registers n Registers templates w Show and pool read only registers Figure 10 3 Program settings Appearance group The Registers section contains settings that affect appearance of the List of registers 6 e Show the numbers of registers turns on off displaying of register numbers inside their names on the list of registers If the user rarely reaches for the device manual displaying the numbers of registers may be unnecessary so they can be hidden e Show and pool read only registers enabling this option adds read only registers to the list Typically the configuration does not necessary to display this type of registers Adding them to the list causes increase of time to read the configuration from the device 15 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 10 4 REGISTERS TEMPLATES Registers templates group contains settings for templating register values Figure 10 4 discussed in section 9
15. o show it user can click the Log button on the lower left area of the program Figure 7 1 Event log Autoscroll v Time Category Description 4 2012 06 13 10 00 52 273 Information Received additional informations about device SPT 61 2012 06 13 10 00 52 296 Information Reading registers of the device at address 1 started 2012 06 13 10 00 53 596 Error Error while reading register 01h of the device at address 1 Modbus exception A0h Possible exceed of upper border range see manual 2012 06 13 10 00 54 284 Information Reading 20 registers of the device at address 1 done 2012 06 13 10 21 45 268 Information Received additional informations about device SPT 86L 2012 06 13 10 21 45 301 Information Reading registers of the device at address 1 started 2012 06 13 10 21 46 144 Information Reading 64 registers of the device at address 1 done Log Figure 7 1 Area of event messages Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 If appears an event that requires the user attention such as communication error this area will show automatically Information appearing here are also saved into the EventLog txt file which is located in the main directory of the program 8 THE LIST OF REGISTERS After the network scan user can select one of detected devices If there is a device for which the program can change its configuration that after selected it the S Config 2 program tries automatically read its current values of registers Figure 8 1
16. o the COM ports List of related products contains a list of products associated with 4 Device information provides additional information read from the device Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 Area of event messages allows user to view events of the program List of registers displays a list of registers for the selected device Register information contains details of the selected register co N Q List of views used for reduce the visibility of registers on the list 6 by chosen criterion 9 Filter allows user to quickly find a register by narrowing down the list 6 to items contain entered phrase in the name or description 10 Read Write registers provides functions that allows user to perform read and write operations on the device 11 Read Write value templates contains functions to perform operations on the value templates of registers scg type files 3 FIRST LAUNCH OF THE APPLICATION When the program launch first time the List of devices 2 contains only serial ports available in the computer This list contains all COM ports physically located on the PC s motherboard and virtual COM ports created by the driver such as USB RS 485 converter Figure 3 1 None additional informations v Changed only v Read all after writing Figure 3 1 The program state after the first launch Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 The
17. on 7 8 1 THE LIST OF REGISTERS VIEWS Devices often contain quite large number of registers Most of them are rarely used To help user set up the program has the ability to hide displaying much advanced registers or registers with other criteria This is done by using the List of views 8 Figure 8 2 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 Registers 3 View Advanced E Ca Ur Basic Advanced Unit 0 000 3 40 mA Figure 8 2 The list of registers views The list of views contains predefined criteria which registers are displayed The user can t define its own views 8 2 SEARCHING REGISTERS In order to easily find registers of interest to user a program can narrow the list to only registers that contain typed phrase Searching is done in the names of registers and their descriptions The size of typed characters in the Filter field doesn t matter Figure 8 3 Jz Filter out I View Advanced I Undo 4 Open Save As Register Value Unit Details 05h Current output 3 40 mA Min value 0 0 27h ModbusTimeout 10 sec Max value 19 9 58h HoldOut holded value r A0h OutputMode interface A1h OutputLow 0 501 mV C A2h OutputHigh 5 000 mV 27 A3h OutputLoRange 5 1 A4h OutputHiRange 4 9 A5h OutputAlarm 3 4mA Figure 8 3 Example of display registers which contain the out phrase 8 3 CHANGING THE REGISTER VALUE To modify the value of register user
18. r number comma and the register value are one command to execute Any spaces between these elements are ignored In one line can be at most one command Both numbers of registers and their values can be written in one of three formats decimal 1 3 35 43975 31886 hexadecimal 0x001 0x3 0x23 OxABC7 0x7c8E binary 0b0001 0b11 0b100011 0b1010101111000111 0b0111110010001110 Below there are some examples of lines in the scg file type which user can create himself and then load the template to any device This is an example of comment line 0x0010 1 write 1 to the register 16 10h 0x0011 0x12 write 18 12h to the register 17 11h 0x00A 0b11 write 3 11b to the register 10 Oah During reading such file the program will check each register number defined in the template and update only those values to registers that occur in the target device 12 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 10 PROGRAM SETTINGS To adapt the program to the user needs can enter to the program settings using the menu Tools gt Settings The settings window consists of several separate logical groups which are discussed in subsections 10 1 COMMUNICATION In Communication group can be found settings of the COM ports parameters used by the program Figure 10 1 Serial ports settings Devices detection Used ports Baudrate s Appearance SI IM 115 200 bps i Registers templates ron Timeout
19. should click inside the Value column This will open specific editor different for various types of registers Figure 8 4 TJ 17h InputHiRange 1 CO 18h TempOffset 3 7c EJ 19h InputConn 3 wire Z 12h InputFilter no filtration 4 1 EU 14h InputLow na filtration RORY time constant ca 0 2 sec I 15h Inputhigh time constant ca 0 4 sec EJ 17h InputHiRange time constant ca time constant ca 1 5 sec L 18h Temp ffset time constant ca 3 sec EZ 19h InputConn 3 wire Figure 6 4 Different editors for various types of registers Values possible to set are depending on the selected register During modification of numerical values by using the keyboard should pay attention to the possible range of changes which is shown in the Register information 7 Quick Guide PC SOFTWARE S Config 2 If the register value is modified the program changes its texts format If user makes many changes and he change his mind the program gives him possibility to restore them by clicking Undo button Undo function works until the next read or write registers to the device 8 4 READING FROM THE DEVICE To read the entire device configuration in the form of the values of its registers click the Read button located in the Read Write registers 3 area Figure 8 5 Executing this command will update values of all registers in the program regardless they are visible or not Between values in various regist
20. ssing mode Related products Device Address gt 9 com3 SPT 86L 1 z sur 94 z Shs 3 com7 r G SPT 61 1 4 Device informations Current passive 4 20mA Dege type SPT 61 EE SeriaNqumber 5678 1112 Firmware v1 07 b 0 5 RTD 16 bit 2 3 wires JE Filter Register gerereerereererereererererererreererrerereereereereereeeereeeeereeeerereen BST Current Basen 10h InputType 12h InputFilter 18h InputOffset 50h HoldMode 51h HoldPEA 52h HoldTime 58h HoldOut A0h OutMode A1h OutLow A2h OutHigh 2012 06 13 16 16 08 823 Information Reading 20 registers of the device at address 1 done 2012 06 13 16 16 28 578 Infor tion Received additional informations about device SPT 61 2012 06 13 16 16 28 623 Information Reading registers of the device at address 1 started Log Registers View Advanced z open WA Value Unit i Min value 0 00 0 Max value 24 00 State of current output a lt 7 Pt 100 F 6 0 1 Le peaks 0 0 Le t 5 5 peak drop value interface 4 7 ac v Changed only 500 0 oC v Read all after writing Autoscroll v A Figure 2 1 View the program with the division into several areas Explanation the numbers from the picture above 1 many Modbus RTU networks O N selected device Detection of devices an area with functions to detect devices simultaneously in List of devices a list of detected devices with division t
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