
22-9058 v2.1
Welcome PCPanel IP
Cent. Mon. with IP
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Bottom Half of the Screen--Rows of Settings (for each panel IP-connection):
•
Active: ( ) = Polling of this IP address
will occur (with the selected settings).
•
IP Address: The IP address of the
panel's IP interface board.
Tip: Details on
setting up the IP board appear in section
3.3.
•
IP Port: The IP port configured for the
Local Port of the IP interface board.
Typically
24833. Note: This must match the
"Local Port No." as configured for “Local Port” of
the IP interface board in the ‘SIP’ section of the IP
board Config Program.
•
Connect Mode: Choose “Auto Connect”,
“Serial Number”, “Digital Number” or “SIP
Address”.
•
Connect Number: This will either be
blank, or contain a specific number
depending on the "Connection Mode"
being used.
•
Timeout: The value in seconds the program will wait for a response to a message
from an IP Interface Module. Typically
2.0 seconds (unless you can characterize your
network connection otherwise).
•
Cycle: The poll rate for this panel in seconds. Typically every 15 seconds.
Tip: Faster poll rates get data quicker but also take up more bandwidth.
•
Retry: The maximum number of communications retries (after a “Timeout” occurs)
before considered to be a communications failure Default:
4.
•
Description: Text field where you can enter a reference name for the panel.
•
Other: Secondary text field where more data can be entered such as an address or
reference key.
•
Account Number: This field shows you the actual account number received from the
panel so that you can track its messages into your automation software (MAS/SIMS).
You do not set this field; it is just a status field.
• State: Status field showing the current state
- Green = OK.
- Yellow = Communications trouble. X number of Retrys in progress.
- Red = Line failure after Retrys end unsuccessfully.
Buttons (lower left of IP Receiver Screen)
- “Configuration” Main screen as seen on previous page that the program defaults to
when opened.
- “Debug” Pressing this button will open a screen that will display poll and response of an
IP from the main screen experiencing trouble. Enter its IP address and port # in the
boxes supplied. Press two vertical lines to pause, right arrow to run and up arrow to
clear.
- “History” Displays ALL receiver event activities.
- “Panel Sim” Manufacturers use only.
You can only enter the configuration on a line if the
device is not active (untick the Active box, prevents
you from changing data while communicating).
You can right click and enable or disable any of
these columns.
You can also right click and select a debug column
which gives information on the number of
messages, acks, naks and a ping test in the event
that the unit appears to go down (to establish some
form of network connectivity first rather than
assume hardware failure at the panel side).
For details on
the available
"Connection
Modes", refer to
section 3.5.3
(previous).
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