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

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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.

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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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