Digi-Star Diet Manager Set-up User Manual

SET-UP AND USER

GUIDE

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Set-up and User Guide

Digi - Star® LLC

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Table of Contents

Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 1

Minimum System Requirements......................................................................................... 1

System Setup................................................................................................................................... 2

Connect the DataKey™ Docking Station ............................................................................ 2

Install Diet Manager Software.......................................................................................... 2

Find Comm ......................................................................................................................... 3

Diet Manager Setup...................................................................................................................... 4

Enter/Update Commodities................................................................................................. 4

Enter/Update Recipes.......................................................................................................... 4

Enter/Update Corrals .......................................................................................................... 5

Enter/Update Wagons ......................................................................................................... 6

Entering/Updating Operators.............................................................................................. 7

Sending Feed Data .............................................................................................................. 7

Loads Mode ........................................................................................................................ 7

Send Loads to the DataKey™.............................................................................................. 8

List Mode............................................................................................................................ 8

Send Loads to the DataKey™.............................................................................................. 9

Datakey Docking Station Activity Light Formats .............................................................. 9

RF Datalink......................................................................................................................... 9

Auto Send (RF Datalink) .............................................................................................. 10

Feeding with the EZ3500 Indicator .................................................................................. 10

Receive Data from the DataKey™................................................................................. 10

Receive Data Options ................................................................................................... 11

Receive Data from RF Datalink.................................................................................... 11

View Data on DataKey™.............................................................................................. 12

Test DataKey™.............................................................................................................. 12

Authorize DataKey™..................................................................................................... 12

Reports .......................................................................................................................................... 13

Report Types/Definitions.................................................................................................. 13

Help Menu .................................................................................................................... 13

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Diet Manager

Introduction

Welcome to the Diet Manager Set-up and User Guide”. Diet Manager is a software program designed
to easily utilize the EZ3500 Indicator and DataKey™ to track and record recipe loading and feeding. Diet
Manager allows you to set up specific recipes and pen deliveries for your herd. The program tracks and
records each step in the process including tracking each individual operator. The program outputs the
completed loading and feeding data into over 10 easy to read reports with selectable date ranges. This
provides you with the valuable data required to optimize your feeding system on a cost/production basis.

The program is Windows based to allow you to get up and running quickly and start understanding and
controlling your feeding costs.

Diet Manager includes:

1. Software on Compact Disk

2. Data Key Docking Station with Cable

3. Manual and Documents

Minimum System Requirements

Make certain that your PC includes the following hardware and software. These are the minimum system

requirements to run Diet Manager.

• A Pentium 100 or better PC

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or greater

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

• 100 Meg Free disk space

• 32 Meg Ram

• CD Drive

• A mouse

• A serial port

• Printer

• 28.8 modem

• Internet Service Provider

A USB to Serial Port adapter can be used if your PC does not have a free serial port. The serial port must
be assigned to a port number 1 to 8. A higher comm. port setting will not work with the Diet Manager
program.

Note: Certain programs can interfere with the operation of the serial port / Diet Manager. These programs

include Palm Desktop and some auto ID systems and milk monitoring programs. If these programs are
installed and running on the PC you intend to use for the Diet Manager system, they must be shut off
when reading / writing to the DataKey™. Failure to shut these programs off during this sequence may
result in errors and lost data.

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Set-up and User Guide

System Setup

Connect the DataKey™ Docking Station

The DataKey™ Docking Station is the interface device for the DataKey™. This device must be connected to
the computer running the Diet Manager software.

Note: The DataKey™ is not need to operate the Diet Manager Software unless you are sending feeding data to the

DataKey™ or running the software for the first time.

To connect the device:

1. Connect the 9-pin connector to the serial 9-pin connector on the computer that will be running

the Diet Manager software.

2. Plug the power supply into an 115v/230v outlet. The power light on the DataKey™ Docking

Station should be ON.

3. Insert the DataKey™ into the slot on the front of the DataKey™ Docking Station.

Install Diet Manager

Read the Digi-Star License Agreement on the sheet accompanying the software and this manual. When
you break the seal on the CD, and install the software, you agree to the terms of the license agreement.
The Diet Manager software is shipped to you on a CD. To install the software, please close all other open
programs. Insert the CD into the drive. On Windows XPTM operating systems, you must log on as
administrator. If Auto Run is enabled on your computer, follow the installation instructions.
If the installation screen does not appear, go to Start and select Run. From the Run menu, browse the CD
and select setup.exe. The install screen will now appear. Follow the installation instructions.

Install, connect and power On the DataKey™ Docking Station and Insert the DataKey™ before attempting

to start the Diet Manager software. Failure to do so will result in an error during the initial phase of the
software setup.

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Software

Select the program Language

After installation of the software, the first time that the Diet Manager™ program is
started, the Language Selection box will appear.

Note: The Language Selection can be changed at any time after initial setup.

To select a language from the list, click on the desired language
and click Ok to save your selection. The language selection can
be changed from within the Diet Manager™ program by selecting
System, Language from the main menu.

Data Transfer Type for the EZ3500 and EZ4300

Data sent to the EZ3500 and EZ4300 can be sent in three
formats:

Standard Batch Type: Each load is built by the PC
software. It assigns pens to a recipe and builds an exact
load for the pens.
Loads are built and delivered by pressing [Recipe] only.

List Feed Type: The PC software sends the recipe data and
the pen data in two different fields. The operator selects the
recipe to build and which pens will be delivered.

Press [Recipe] to select a recipe list or press [Pens] to select
the pens list.

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