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LED Status
- This is the Status for
All Slaves
or the specific Slave selected.
1)
Solid Green (Connected)
–
The gateway is connected to all of the DF1 Slaves that are configured and
enabled.
2)
Flashing Green (Not Connected)
–
No DF1 Slaves are enabled/configured.
a.
Verify DF1 settings and ensure that the
Enable
checkbox is checked for the appropriate
Slave(s).
3)
Flashing Red (Connection Timeout) - The gateway cannot open a connection to 1 or more of the
enabled DF1 devices.
a.
Verify DF1 Communication Command.
b.
Verify DF1 Destination IDs.
c.
Verify Port Settings used match the DF1 Slave that the gateway is communicating with,
including Protocol Mode and Frame Verification.
d.
Verify wires for specific port settings.
4)
Flashing Red (Empty Scan List) - One or more enabled DF1 Slaves have no scan lines configured.
5)
Flashing Red (Communication not attempted yet)
–
(Specific Slave Only) No reads are configured
and data needed for writes isn’t valid yet.
6)
Flashing Red (Dependency Error) - The dependent protocol is missing causing the communication to
go to inactive.
a.
The other Protocol must be
Connected
.
7)
Solid Red (Fatal Error)
–
The serial port selected on the DF1 Master Configuration page is not
configured.
a.
Verify that DF1 has an enabled Port selected. If needed, configure Port Settings.
Variables
- These are the values for
All Slaves
or the Specific Slave Selected.
Network Bitmap Status (Displayed in Hex):
-Each bit corresponds to a Slave. If the bit is set, the Slave is connected, otherwise the bit is 0.
-Bit 0 corresponds to Slave 1 and Bit 4 is for Slave 5 and so on.
Read Requests:
-
Number of DF1 Read Requests that the gateway has sent to the Slave device.
Read Responses:
-
Number of valid DF1 Read Responses that the gateway has received from the Slave device.
-
NOTE: This should be equal to the number of Read Requests
Read Timeouts:
-
Number of times the gateway has reached the timeout period waiting for a Read Response from
the Slave device.
Read Errors:
-
Number of DF1 Read Errors
Write Requests:
-
Number of DF1 Write Requests that the gateway has sent to the Slave device.
Write Responses:
-
Number of valid DF1 Write Responses that the gateway has received from the Slave device.
-
NOTE: This should be equal to the number of Write Requests
Write Timeouts:
-
Number of times the gateway has reached the timeout period waiting for a Write Response
from the Slave device.
Write Errors:
-
Number of DF1 Write Errors