Accessing a master module via VPN
Hi
I have a remote machine that has a teltonika modem on it that I can access remotely using OpenVPN. I know the configuration of the VPN is good because I can access the Teltonika admin pages (192.168.10.1) without issue from my laptop connected to my phone hotspot on 192.168.111.100
In the Teltonika admin pages I can see that the modem has allocated a DHCP address to the MD4-10 module and I can ping it and successfully get responses from the display.
In Design I can see the MD4-10 module in the discovered modules but its discovered with an IP address of 172.16.0.1 which is the VPN endpoint assigned to the openVPN tunnel at the modem end. Ive added a static module with the right IP address of 192.168.10.14, but unlike the discovered module the indicator light never turns green.
Any attempt to communicate with the module fails with a "failed to open a new communication session" error.
Has anyone dealt with this issue before and sorted a way through it, I'm trying to work out if this behaviour is due to a missconfiguration of my vpn, or if its by design because I know Parker have a solution exactly in this space. If my understanding is correct though its a 3G based solution where Australian Telco's have all announced end of life for 3G in comming nearterm months so not a particularly long life solution.....
help if you can
Copy Paste problem with Display Pages
I found an issue with Copy Paste of a display page from one design project to another.
To reproduce:-
1) Create a new display page, in my case it was an MD4-10
2) Add a Linear Bar somewhere to the page.
3) Modify the Linear bar so that the colour of the Bar is Red (from the list not from Custom)
4) Add another Bar and this time make it green (from the list not from Custom)
4) Right Click on the Project Manager User Interface, your New display page and select copy
In a 2nd concurrent instance of design open a new project with an MD4-10 module as master module
1) Over the Project Manager User display instance of your Display right click select Paste. The Red Colour of the Linear Bar is lost and the default colour is present. The green Bar comes across just fine.
If you Right Click Paste into the same project as you originally worked in, instead of a new one, a new display page is created but here the colour is retained not lost.
For me when I had multiple linear Bars with different colours overlapping so that visibility channels determined which of the 3 was actually displayed, the Green bar and the Yellow bar came across Ok with the paste, but the Red bar always looses its colour and defaults the to the initial orange/brown that design defaults to... weird
Andy
canbus vibration sensor
Hey Everyone
I have a sensor I need to try and source and its not proving easy to find.... I'm working on a 50T Horizontal tree mulching machine. With any machine of this size which has a large rapidly spinning mill vibration can be an issue. If the mill is balanced then the vibration is minor and if it's been damaged or worn out of balance then the vibration can be extreme and destructive.
We have a working solution for balancing these types of Mills that can be called on when needed, but I'm looking to permanently establish a sensor on each of the mill bearings that provides over canbus a single axis vibration reading from which at startup prior to introducing tree material we can determine if the mill is go/nogo. For a balance you need a vibration quantum and an angular measure of unbalance. To determine what I need I really only need the vibration quantum and wouldn't expect to put in an optical sensor from which to measure any angular unbalance from. 'm hoping that there are suitable sensors available that can tell me over J1939 or CanOpen that the vibration is x IPS^2 (or any of the other multitude of measurements that can apply to vibration....my background is aviation hence IPS)
Anyone seen anything like this?
There are heaps of accelerometers that can provide me with sinusoidal waveforms but that means I have to put in hardware to size the waveform appropriate for the controllers and then make my IQAN controllers interpret the waveform when they are all busy anyway, something I can hopefully offload to a sensor
Andy
Does anyone have an XT2 units they may want to sell?
Looking for approx 10 IQAN-XT2's for a project (a retrofit).
Command Line Arguments for IQANrun, connect via Ethernet
I am having an issue using command line arguments to connect automatically with Ethernet and CAN. when sending a command line prompt IQAN run will not properly switch to the different communication type. such as when connecting with Ethernet and On IQAN Run the Connection was previously CAN it wont automatically connect even with a given MAC address. However this isn't an issue with the previous connection was the same type and I am able to send command line arguments to send the project File as well as IQAN script File.
Design Improvement suggestion
Hi.
When adding a channel to a design using the Add Button adds always to the Top LH side of your design. If the design is small then its no real issue to just move it to where you want. If its a bigger design then you have to move it across a larger space with many smaller moves which is a PITA. As such we all learn quickly to use the add channel from the pop up right click dialogue which adds where the mouse is when the right click occurred.There are some channels where it is easier to add from a higher channel than via this right click mechanism. For example when adding J1939 Parameters to its master J1939 frame its easier to do it in the master frame channel so that the channel to channel linkage is automatically produced. You can alternately add it via a right click option but then you have to add the channel name to the frame to produce the link (ugly vs unsightly imho) . If instead of adding the channel at the top left of your design it simply added at the top left of your current display then all that scrolling to move stuff around would be avoided.
Anyone else agree with this? Or is there some other way of adding parameters to frames that is easier than the 2 methods Ive discussed? Ive tried dragging a parameter channel over a frame channel to see if that would add it as the last parameter to that channel but it doesn't do that.
There has to be a better way
Andy
can to mqtt gateways
Do you have any experiences / recommendations for Iqan CANbus -> mqtt gateways?
Alarm message
This suddenly showed up on my ecolog harvester.
the right joystick feels warm... Short circuit?
Is there a way to detect if any message dialog is active so camera window can be hidden.
Due to the camera window overlapping dialog windows I look for a way to see if there is any dialog open at all, which I could use to hide the camera window temporarily.
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