Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software User Manual

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Preface — What’s New in LoggerNet 4?

PakBus network, proposes and verifies valid connections between devices, and

allows integration of the model directly into LoggerNet 4.0.

See below for more details on what is new in LoggerNet 4.0 and each

individual application.

One of the main efforts in the development of LoggerNet 4.1 was the ability to

use LNDB databases with View Pro. The ability to lock the timestamp column

on the left of the data file has also been added to View Pro. This keeps the

timestamp visible as you scroll through columns of data. The Device

Configuration Utility adds an off-line mode which allows you to look at the

settings for a certain device type without actually being connected to a device.

The CRBasic Editor now has the capability to open a read-only copy of any

file. This gives you the ability to open multiple copies of a program and

examine multiple areas of a very large program at the same time. You can also

now continue an instruction onto multiple lines by placing the line continuation

indicator (a single space followed by an underscore “_”) at the end of the each

line that is to be continued. Also, bookmarks in a CRBasic program are now

persistent from session to session. In the Troubleshooter and the Setup Screen

(Standard View), you can now click on a potential problem to bring up a menu

that allows you to go the Setup Screen or Status Monitor to fix the potential

problem, bring up help describing the problem, or in some cases fix the

problem directly. Campbell Scientific’s new wireless sensors have been added

to the Network Planner. An option to provide feedback on LoggerNet is now

available from the LoggerNet Toolbar’s Help menu.

Beginning with LoggerNet 4.1, Windows 2000 is no longer

supported.

LoggerNet 4.2 adds support for IPv6 addresses. IPv6 addresses are written as

eight two-byte address blocks separated by colons and surrounded by brackets

(e.g., [2620:24:8080:8600:85a1:fcf2:2172:11bf]). Prior to LoggerNet 4.2, only

IPv4 addresses were supported. IPv4 addresses are written in dotted decimal

notation (e.g., 192.168.11.197). Leading zeroes are stripped for both IPv4 and

IPv6 addresses. Note that while LoggerNet now supports IPv6 addresses and

they can be used to specify servers, CR1000/CR3000/CR800 series dataloggers

will not support IPv6 until a future OS release. Check the OS revision history

on our website to determine when IPv6 support is added to the OS. (Starting in

LoggerNet 4.2.1, IPv6 connections are disabled by default. They can be

enabled from LoggerNet’s Tools | Options menu item.)

LoggerNet now supports display and input of Unicode characters/strings in

many areas of the product. Unicode is a universal system for encoding

characters. It allows LoggerNet to display characters in the same way across

multiple languages and countries. See Unicode in the LoggerNet help file index

for more information on Unicode and what applications support Unicode

characters. To support Unicode, an Insert Symbol dialog box has been added to

the CRBasic Editor. This allows you to insert Unicode symbols into your

CRBasic program for use in Strings and Units declarations.

The ability to set up subnets of the network map has been added to LoggerNet

Admin. The Setup Screen’s View | Configure Subnets menu item is used to

configure the subnets. Within each subnet, you can also specify groups of

dataloggers. The datalogger groups create folders than can be collapsed or

expanded when viewing the subnet. Once subnets have been configured, you

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