Danfoss SonoRepeat Operating guide

Operating Guide

SonoRepeat Tool

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 2

2. System Requirements ............................................................................................................................... 2

3. Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 2

3.1 Installation of the SonoRepeat Tool Software .............................................................................................................2

4. Starting up the SonoRepeat Tool Software ............................................................................................ 2

5. Using the SonoRepeat Tool Software ..................................................................................................... 4

5.1 Settings Dialog .........................................................................................................................................................................5

6. Configuring a SonoRepeat device ........................................................................................................... 5

Operating Guide SonoRepeat Tool

1. Introduction

2. System Requirements

SonoRepeat for repeating wireless M-Bus radio telegrams operated on battery.

The SonoRepeat devices are used to increase the distance at which telegrams of radio meters may be received. For that purpose, it is necessary to define the radio meters to repeat (meter list), how often and how long the SonoRepeat should listen into the radio channel to capture the radio telegrams of these meters and at which rate the received radio telegrams should be repeated.

If the SonoRepeat device is then placed in the middle between the radio meter and a receiver with e.g. data concentrator, the data concentrator is able to receive the radio telegrams of the meter even if the distance between the two is too big to receive the radio telegrams directly.

Before installing the SonoRepeat Tool software, please check if your PC complies with the minimum requirements:

• Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 or later operating system (updated to the latest version)

• 1 GHz processor

• 4 GB memory

SonoRepeat: Battery operated, limited battery

lifetime May repeat up to 10 radio meters Is only listening to radio

telegrams to repeat at defined

times Optical interface for

configuration

Usually, the SonoRepeat is configured to open its radio receiver e.g. once per day for e.g. 40 seconds and capture one radio telegram from each radio meter of its configured meter list. Then these captured radio telegrams are repeated with the given sending rate. Therefore, the actuality of the radio telegram data is not as good as with directly from the respective meter received radio telegrams.

• 20 MB free hard disk space

• Optical interface device (opto-head)

according to ZVEI. Correct driver must have been installed, check the manual of the optical interface device.

3. Installation

3.1 Installation of the SonoRepeat Tool Software

4. Starting up the SonoRepeat Tool Software

Execute the installation file SonoRepeat Tool_Setup.exe on your PC.

If there is already a former version of the software installed, the user has to remove this version prior to installing the current version.

The SonoRepeat Tool software is started up by double-clicking on the program icon on your desktop or the respective tile:

Having installed the software for the first time, the following dialog for selecting the program language appears (English, French or German).

If the version number of the already installed version is inferior to the version to be installed the removing is done automatically. Otherwise, the user has to do it manually.

Note:

You may change the language afterwards at the settings dialog.

Operating Guide SonoRepeat Tool

4. Starting up the SonoRepeat Tool Software (continuous)

Starting up the software gives you the screen below:

The first thing to do now is to set the correct serial interface (COM port) for the optical interface device (e.g. as in the example above). You may have to check the COM/LPT settings at the device manager of Windows to do so.

Place the SonoRepeat device to configure on the optical interface device as shown in the picture below. It is important that the cable of the optical interface device points in the direction indicated in the picture.

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