Measurement Computing PointScan Road Map rev.2.0 User Manual
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3.
Configure a channel; steps 3(a) through (f).
DataSocket Import Setup
3(a) Select the channel that is to be configured. Note that a green socket indicates the
channel for which selected options will be applied. In the previous figure, channel
0 is selected.
3(b) For the connection Type, select OPC.
3(c) Click on the <Select Item> button.
DASYLab will search the computer registries and list every OPC server program
that resides on your computer.
3(d) Locate and expand the OPC Server Software identifier (see following figure). In
the figure we selected KEPware.KEPServerEx for the Kepware OPC Server
Software. In addition, we expanded Channel 1 to show PointScan104 and its
associated tags (Temp1 and Temp2); as well as PointScan204 (not shown in its
entirety) to show its associated channel tags (Temp3 and Temp4). You would
need to scroll down to see Temp3 and Temp4.
Expanding the Server Item
3(e) From the expanded list, select the channel tag that applies to the channel
currently being configured.
In our example tags will be assigned to channels as follows:
PointScan104 / Temp1: Channel 0
PointScan104 / Temp2: Channel 1
PointScan204 / Temp3: Channel 2
PointScan204 / Temp4: Channel 3
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