Configuration Setup

Configuration Setup

These functions are used to setup the protocol communication details in terms of channel, object, attributes and tag address for data exchange with machine. Events and alarms are also defined in configuration for advance functions.

Channel/Object/Attribute/Tag Setup

By pressing "New Driver" button, there are two kinds of channel, hardware communication channel and cloud platform communication channel as shown.

Driver communication are used to setup the details for hardware device or PLC communication. Cloud communication are used to setup the communication with cloud platform. MQTT is the only selection at the moment. However, both channels have its own specific communication parameters in a list box.

For driver communication, there are two types communication driver.

Type	Description
Ethernet driver	IP address/hostname and port number.
Serial driver	Device file location, baud rate, data bit, stop bit and parity bit.

For specific parameters of each driver, Here are some examples

Variables/Paramters	Description
USERNAME=neuron	Username
PASSWORD=******	Password
DLYCRESOCKAFTCLOSE=0	Small delay time of socket creation after close
TORECEIVETCP=300	TCP timeout to receive response
NAPTIMEREAD=40	Small sleep time for read data polling
NAPTIMEWRITE=40	Small sleep time for write data polling
SRC_ABKG=8	AB driver parameters
S7P_SCRTSAP=0x10	Siemens S7 driver parameters
S7P_DSTTSAP=0x0020	Siemens S7 driver parameters

After finishing the setup of Channel, start to setup object details.

To add an object to a list, press the "Create" button at the right. An object setup dialog box will be prompted.

Column	Description
Name	This is the name of the object. (30 characters)
Size	This is the number of objects that share the same attributes and characteristics.
Time	This is time interval of data transmission rate. (in second)
Log Time	This is time interval of data logging on the disk. (in second)
Timestamp	A flag that whether transfer timestamp with data. (Y/N)

After finishing the object setup, press the attribute to enter to attribute setup.

By pressing the "Create" button, it will shows a input dialog box for attribute setup. Setup the name, attribute type and details. Changes can be made with Edit button. After making the changes, press "Submit" to save the changes.

After prompting up the address setup dialog, setup or change the addresses of the attribute. The number of addresses depends on the number of object.

Column	Description
Name	This is the name of the attributes.
Type	This is data type of the attributes. It includes word – 2 bytes integer uword – 2 bytes unsigned integer dword – 4 bytes integer udword – 4 bytes unsigned integer bit – Boolean (Y/N) datetime – Unix timestamp value float – IEEE floating value double – IEEE double floating value
Decimal	This is a decimal point for data type for word, uword, dword, udword only. Other data type will display '-'.
Transfer	This is a transmission flag that indicate entire object data would be transferred to platform. (Y/N)
Change	This is a changeable flag that indicate this attribute whether can be changed during operation. (Y/N)
RW	Read/Write direction for PLC, this represents the direction of read or write, or both read/write for PLC
Rtime	This is read polling time interval for PLC when RW is read or

After clicking on the "Address" button, a dialog box will be prompted. Setup the hardware address in this dialog box. Please refer to Address Setup document for address string details for each driver. If no address specifies or dummy address, use "-" to represent in the field, it shows '-' in the field.

Alarm/Event Message Setup

Some object attribute values can be setup to trigger an alarm or event by checking up its condition or comparing its own value with other preset values.

Column	Description
Object1	This is first object of the message.
Attribute1	This is first attribute of the message.
Type	This is the operation type of message. It indicates whether bit operation, value operation, or text operation of an alarm.
Object2	This is second object of the message.
Attribute2	This is second attribute of the message.
Cat	This column is to distinguish the level of importance of each alarm such as, alarm, warning, event, log, command, etc.
Sub	If the field has Tag type, it would store the subroutine number of being called when there is a change to this tag in running mode.

Configuration Overview

The configuration overview page is only for overall configuration checking.

Save New Configuration

After finishing the configuration setup, press the "Send" button to transfer the configuration settings the Neuron system would check up. If it passes the checkup, it would restarts the system to initiate the new configuration. The web interface would be forcibly to logout once system restarts.