IP Serial

• Ethernet & Standalone Monitoring devices (LAN)
• IoT Monitoring (portal required)
• Ares family (USB)

Ethernet + Standalone Monitoring Devices

RJ45 cable connection

1. Connect your device to the Ethernet (direct cable to the switch, crossed to PC).
2. Connect the power adapter to the grid and connect it to your device's power supply connector.
3. The green LED in the Power&Mode RJ45 connector will light up.
4. If the connection to the Ethernet is functional, the LINK (yellow) LED should light up shortly afterward and switch off during data transfer to the Ethernet (Activity signalization).
5. A quickly flashing yellow LINK LED signalizes communication with the DHCP server.

IP address setting (HWg-Config)

The HWg-Config program can be downloaded from HWg-Config page. You can find device on the network and set the IP address.

1. Click on the icon to launch the HWg-Config program – the program automatically searches for connected devices. 
2. Launch the search by clicking on the Find Devices icon.
3. The program searches for devices in your local network. Click on the MAC address of the device to open the dialogue window for device settings.

DHCP (IP address assigned automatically)

Click to underlined IP address (192.168.1.23 for example) in the HWg-Config and device web GUI will be openet in your default WEB browser.

 

Fixed IP address (configure your LAN parameters manually)

Set device network parameters:

1. IP address / HTTP port (80 by standard)

2. Your network mask

3. IP address of your network gateway

4. Device name (optional parameter)

Save the settings by clicking on Apply Changes.

Opening the device web GUI

• Enter the device IP address in the browser window.
• Click on the underlined IP address in the HWg-Config application.
• Click on the IP address in the HWg-Config program.

Configuration webpages

Continue with the device manual

Connecting the device to the Portal (optional)

1. Login to your user account on the SensDesk Technology based portal
   • HWg-cloud.com for free as service from manufacture.
   • SensDesk.com as paid service
   • Any portal from Portal Providers
      
2. On your portal, go to your "My Team" page (top-right menu).
3. On the first screen is Portal settings block - these 4 items you will need configure to your device.
    
4. Open the Ethernet connected device web administration, go to the Portal tab.
5. Click to Portal Enable
6. Fill 4 items of the Portal settings (Server Address, IP Port, Team, Team Password)
7. Click to Save / Manual Push.
8. If is the device properly connected to the network (have acces to public internet), it will appear within few seconds in the "Devices" on your Portal.
9. Name & setup the device
   • Rename default device name + fill device location
   • For each sensor: Fill sensor name (Alias) + SD SAFE RANGE
   • Try email alerting from the portal.

 

PS: You can ignore the device hash (xxxx-xxxx on the label), because portal feature is not enabled on these devices in default configuration.

Continue with the SensDesk Technology portal(s) manual

 

IoT Monitoring devices (portal required)

Physical installation (on site)

1. Plug RJ45 cable from LAN switch / Insert SIM card + Attach the external antenna.
2. Connect external sensors (and place them to the right position).
3. Connect the power adapter to the electrical grid / remove insulating strip from the internal battery.
4. Check the Device hash number on the label (xxxx-xxxx).
5. Wait until the LED activity indicates connection to the portal (details in each product manual).
6. Default portal where new devices are connected is www.HWg-cloud.com - open it in web browser..

Details in the device manual

 

Portal adoption / configuration  (remotely)

1. Login to your user account on the www.HWg-cloud.com (it's free portal from manufacture).
2. Go to your "My Team" page (top-right menu).
3. Scroll down to the Device Adoption. Fill in the device hash (xxxx-xxxx number on the label of the physical device).
4. If is the device properly connected to the network, it will appear after some time in the "Devices".
5. You can migrate the device to any other portal based on SensDesk technology (click to Migrate device in Device details) or configure and use it in HWg cloud.
6. Name & setup the device
   • Rename default device name + fill device location
   • For each sensor: Fill sensor name (Alias) + SD SAFE RANGE
   • Try email alerting from the portal.

Continue with the SensDesk Technology portal(s) manual

Ares Family - GSM/LTE devices with USB port

Connection to PC

1. Connect Ares to PC with a USB cable and open the ARES disk that appears
2. Double-click the AresConf application to start it
3. The General tab appears and shows the device status:

Continue with the device manual 

Connecting Ares to the Portal (optional)

1. Login to your user account on the SensDesk Technology based portal
   • HWg-cloud.com for free as service from manufacture.
   • SensDesk.com as paid service
   • Any portal from Portal Providers
      
2. On your portal, go to your "My Team" page (top-right menu).
3. On the first screen is Portal settings block - these 4 items you will need configure to your device.
    
4. Open the USB connected device - AresConf configuration utility, go to the Portal tab.
5. Click to Portal Enable
6. Fill 4 items of the Portal settings (Server Address, IP Port, Team, Push (Team) Password)
7. Click to Save / Manual Push.
8. If is the device properly connected to the GSM / LTE network, it will appear within few seconds in the "Devices" on your Portal.
9. Name & setup the device
   • Rename default device name + fill device location
   • For each sensor: Fill sensor name (Alias) + SD SAFE RANGE
   • Try email alerting from the portal.

 

    

If you can connect to a device via the Web interface, you will find the Default tab on the System tab or Reset to Default, Load default, etc.

Using HWg Config (HWg-SMS-GW3, HWg-SH4, HWg-STE, HWg-STE PoE, HWg-STE Push, HWg-STE Push PoE, HWg-STE Plus, HWg-STE Plus PoE, STE2, IP Watchdog2 Lite, IP Watchdog2 Industrial)

• With HWg-Config, you can reset the device only 60 seconds after switching it on / restarting. Out of this time, the reset option is inactive. Disconnect the power-reset device and reconnect it.
• Open HWg Config and search for the device (the flag that the device can be reset is retrieved only when accessed, so if you search for a device before restarting, the option remains inactive)
• Click on the device and open the details in the setting. Press the Load to Default button

Or

• Select the device you want to reset and right-click to open the context menu. Select Load to Default

 

 

Using the DIP switch (Poseidon, Poseidon2 and Damocles2)

• Disconnect the power-reset device and reconnect it.
•  Within the 30s after reconnecting, change the DIP 1 - Setup status to 6 times (3 times by turning it on and off).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the DIP switch (IP WatchDog Lite, IP WatchDog HWg-WR02a)

• Disconnect the power-reset device and reconnect it.
•  Within the 30s after reconnecting, change the DIP 1 - Setup status to 6 times (3 times by turning it on and off).

 

 

 

 

Using the reset button (STE2 Units)

• Disconnect the device to be reset, from the power supply
• Press the Reset button and reconnect the power. Hold the button for another 3 seconds.

 

 

Using the reset button (HWg-PWRx Units)

• Press the Reset button (the cover sheet will need to be pierced) and Hold the button for 10 seconds..

 

 

 

 

Using  Short-circuit jumpers (Units HWg-STE, HWg-STE PoE, HWg-STE Push, HWg-STE Push PoE, HWg-STE Plus, HWg-STE Plus Poe)

• Disconnect the device to be reset, from the power supply
• Open the box and short-circuit SET ( place the jumper on both pins)
• Connect power and wait about 15 seconds. Now remove the jumper.
• Disconnect the device from the power and reconnect it.

Modbus/TCP settings are found in the MODBUS Setup menu:

 

 

Local Settings section

• @M: GPIO control from MODBUS – Activates or deactivates access via Modbus/TCP.
• @P: Port – TCP port where the device listens for Modbus/TCP communication.
• @I: Unit Identifier ("slave address") – Modbus Slave ID.

Active mode

In the Active mode, one device can control up to 8 slave devices (1:n operation). Just specify the IP address of the remote device, the Port where it listens and the Slave ID (Unit Identifier). At the remote device, Modbus/TCP must be activated.

 

Modbus register map

Register	Data type			Address	CMD
Discrete Inputs	1-bit	R/O	I/O	1xxxx	Rd 0x02
Coils	1-bit	R/W	App	0xxxx	Rd 0x01
					Wr 0x05
					WrMulti 0x0F
Input Registers	16-bit	R/O	I/O	3xxxx	Rd 0x04
Holding Registers	16-bit	R/W	App	4xxxx	Rd 0x03
					Wr 0x06
					WrMulti 0x10

 

Box2Box mode over Modbus/TCP

The Box2Box mode can be used in in 1:1 or 1:n operation. In 1:1 operation, the inputs of an I/O Controller (IP Relay) can be mirrored on the other I/O Controller and vice versa; in 1:n operation, the inputs of one device can be mirrored on up to 8 other devices.

Master device

At the master device (that sends the data), GPIO control over ModBus/TCP must be enabled and the connection parameters for the target devices entered. It is necessary to specify the IP Address, Port, and Unit Identifier. In 1:1 operation, the settings are identical at both sides.

Slave side (1:N operation)

We assume that both I/O Controllers are in factory default settings.

Let us open the WWW interfaces of the two I/O Controllers side-by-side in two different browser windows (not just two different tabs). The side-by-side view of the two I/O Controller interfaces then looks like this:

Click Login and log in to both devices. The default credentials are admin/1234. At both devices, open the Network page:

The left device will be the client, the right device will be the server. The TCP connection is established by the client; that is, if the state at the device on the left changes, the changes are communicated to the device on the right.

In the left window, fill in the S and U parameters:

Switch to the TCP Mode Setup page in both windows and set the V: NetworkVirtualTerminal parameter to ON:

In the left window, click Save Setup & Restart and then click Reboot. Wait for the page to refresh. If the page does not refresh after 20 seconds, press F5. Everything should work now. If not, compare the TCP Setup listings.

Controlling of IP Relay output using command line is useful when you need switch relay on/off, for example from the another program (.bat file). Example application can be switching on the warning siren via Ethernet, when any program detected crossing of appropriate temperature, any observed parameter of gas or any similar parameter.

NetCat

NetCat is simple utility, which send data included in the file to the TCP/IP connection to the specified IP adress. This utility is distributed as freeware and can be downloaded from the home page http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ ,where you can find version for operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SunOS/Solaris a MacOS X or from http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/ , where you can find version for Windows. Application can be used for direct sending commands to the appliance. Run NetCat.exe and by typing appropriate commands send the data (see below picture). List of all commands you can find in NetCat manual.   

In our application we create NVT command-file, which will switch on relay 1 on the IP Relay. This file we will save as “set_rel_1.bin“, and then send to IP address of IP Relay using NetCat and so we control outputs of Relay.
 

Creating of file with command

For sending command, which will switch on for example relay on the channel 1 create a file in the NetCat directory. File will only contain appropriate NVT command. Table of commands you can find in manual for appliance, but be careful commands are in binary form so you must switch your editor to HEX mode as seen in the picture below. And save it for example as “set_rel_1.bin“.

Other commands for controlling IP relay

Action	NVT command
Switch on Relay 1	FF FA 2C 32 25 FF FO
Switch off Relay 1	FF FA 2C 32 15 FF FO
Switch on Relay 2	FF FA 2C 32 26 FF FO
Switch off Relay 2	FF FA 2C 32 16 FF FO
Switch on LED3 – yellow	FF FA 2C 32 10 FF FO
Switch off LED3 - yellow	FF FA 2C 32 20 FF FO
Switch on LED4 – red	FF FA 2C 32 11 FF FO
Switch off LED4 – red	FF FA 2C 32 22 FF FO
Switch on LED4 – green	FF FA 2C 32 17 FF FO
Switch off LED4 – green	FF FA 2C 32 27 FF FO

For sending other commands (more in table) you just create file with corresponding NVT command. And then you send it in the same way.

Note: Compete list of commands will you find in manual for appliance…

Sending file to the appliance

Into the command line write the command:

nc parameters xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yy < file name

• xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx marks an IP address of appliance you want to send data
• yy marks port on which appliance communicate
• parameters you may leave this space empty or fill it with one or more parameters
  • -d will close window with the command line
  • -n NetCat will accept only digits in IP address
  • -u connection in UDP mode instead of TCP
  • -v will write basic information about connection
  • -w will set time limit for trying to make a connection and also the network inactivity

 

e.g. “nc –d 192.168.1.55 23 < setrel1.bin” will send command for switching on relay on channel 1 (this command is saved in file set_rel_1.bin) to the appliance with IP address 192.168.1.55 over port 23.

 

Creating executable file

If you don’t want type every time command to the command line, you can create file, which will contain the appropriate text. For example “nc –d 192.168.1.55 99 < setrel1”. And save it as “filename.bat”. Executing this file will cause the same thing, as you write the command, which this file contain, into the command line.

Note: If NetCat will not do what you want let’s try NVT sequence in our application Hercules – TEST tab.

To start up of e-mail functionality of the PortStore is not necessary to use mentioned Free SMTP server but is possible to apply different software. Its selection is based on operating system of the server and on additional requirements of organisation.

Free SMTP server settings

Description of programme

Free SMTP server is freeware for MS Windows which enables to send e-mails directly from your computer. It can be used instead of your ISP's one. It does not require authorisation and special settings so it is easy to send e-mails from the PortStore.

Istallation

Installation of software is quite simple. First, we must download last version of Free SMTP server http://www.softstack.com/download/freesmtp.zip. We must unzip downloaded archive to a temporary folder and then we launch setup.exe. Wizard takes us trough the installation.
Notice: Software is located on delivered CD too.

Configuration

Free SMTP server is immediately usable after installation and there usually is not necessity to change any options. There are not many possibilities of configuration. All options are in menu File->Options. We can set two options in this dialog - port number (standard number of SMTP protocol is 25) and DNS server address. First option is necessary to change only in case that we already have another service on this port or due to security arguments. Second choice is suitable when we have special DNS server for an e-mail communication on our network.

Settings of PortStore

We must set the IP address of device, its mask, port number and gateway in PortStore's TCP Setup or RS-232 setup (see User's manual) at first. After this we can configure the e-mail. It can be done according to following example.

WEB51>S192.168.1.7	//IP address of computer where Free SMTP server is running
WEB51>U25	//port number of SMTP service on SMTP server (usually 25)
WEB51>&G<PortStore [at] hwg [dot] cz>	//e-mail address of PortStore
WEB51>&U<mmatejka [at] hwg [dot] cz>	//e-mail address where power failure alert will be sent to
WEB51>&XPower failure!!!	//subject of alert e-mail
WEB51>&V<mmatejka [at] hwg [dot] cz>	//e-mail address where first full buffer alert will be sent
WEB51>&YBuffer is already full!!!	//subject of first e-mail
WEB51>&W<jrehak [at] hwg [dot] cz>	//e-mail address where second full buffer alert will be sent
WEB51>&ZBuffer is totally full!!!	//subject of second e-mail
WEB51>D2	//save of configuration - not necessary
WEB51>R	//restart of device

Tip: After setting up the parameters switch PortStore from Setup mode to Ethernet mode.

 

Power failure alert verify

To check sending power failure alert e-mail is sufficient to unplug power adaptor for a couple seconds and then plug back. After start of PortStore we should receive the e-mail (as shown on picture).

 

 

 

 

 

Full buffer alert verify

For verifying of this functionality we will use software utility HW Hercules Setup Utility that is delivered together with a buffer box or it can be downloaded.

First, we must prepare testing data that we will send via RS-232 into PortStore. This we make in pane Serial

 

We right-click on state window (below text "Received/Sent data") and from context menu we choose Send file-> Test file generator and we save the file.

 

 

In next step we send generated data via serial link into the PortStore. Then we have to set communication parameters (set up speed, parity and other parameters of the serial port according to configuration of PortStore) and in field Mode we select PortStore test and then click on Open. Legend "COM opened" should appear in state window.

 

After this we right-click on state window and from context menu we choose Send file-> Send file name… On following dialog we choose test file we made. If everything is O.K. we can see this dialog.

During sending of data we should received two e-mails from the PortStore. The messages look like following ones.

• Buffer is almost full (70%) - screenshot
• Buffer is total full (95%) - screenshot

 

If e-mails come then everything is right and the PortStore works properly. (Tip: It is often that your anti-spam software blocks e-mails from the PortStore because it interprets them as SPAM. If this happens you have to change configuration of the anti-spam.)

 

I am looking forward your comments and technical questions.