User manual SIMRAD ER60 REV B

[. . . ] Operator manual Simrad ER60 Scientific echo sounder application www. simrad. com MAXIMIZING YOUR PERFORMANCE AT SEA 850-164692 ER60 Scientific echo sounder Operator manual About this document Rev Rev. B Date 28. 09. 04 Written by RBr Checked by LNA Approved by LNA Revised for new software version 2. 1. 0. © 2004 Simrad AS. ISBN 82-8066-011-9 The information contained in this document is subject to change without prior notice. Simrad AS shall not be liable for errors contained herein, or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this document. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or otherwise copied without prior permission from Simrad AS. Simrad AS Strandpromenaden 50 Box 111 N-3191 Horten Telephone: Facsimile: +47 33 03 40 00 +47 33 04 29 87 YOUR PERFORMANCE AT SEA MAXIMIZING Operator manual Sections 1 Application description This chapter provides a very short description of the ER60 Scientific echo sounder. [. . . ] Note that all colour scales except Smooth Echosounder require that the number of colours is set to 64. even other programs running on the computer - are affected! Note Do not confuse this dialogue with the Colour Scale dialogue! Related topics Colour Scale, page 57 850-164692 / Rev. B 59 Simrad ER60 Operator manual Configure Statusbar The Configure Statusbar dialogue box is accessed when you click the right mouse button on the Statusbar. Purpose This dialogue is used to select which sensor information to display on the Statusbar. Related topics Statusbar, page 6 60 850-164692 / Rev. B Dialogue boxes and functions Configure Window The Configure Window dialogue is accessed from the shortcut menu in all the views. Purpose This dialogue is used to set which views to show in the active window. Use Use the check boxes to show or hide views in the window. This means that all data for this view are still collected while the view is hidden. Related topics Depth, page 8 Single Target Position, page 9 Single Target Histogram, page 10 Echogram, page 11 Scope, page 12 Colour scale, page 13 Numerical, page 14 850-164692 / Rev. B 61 Simrad ER60 Operator manual Contents The Contents dialogue box is accessed from the Help menu. It opens the first page of the context sensitive on-line help system. 62 850-164692 / Rev. B Dialogue boxes and functions Data Source The Data Source is accessed from the Operation menu. Purpose This dialogue box is used to select where the echo sounder program shall obtain its data from. It can be used to connect to an echo sounder program running on a remote computer. This means that any computer on the network running the ER60 software can connect to the echo sounder computer and run the sounder independently. Use The dialogue displays a list of echo sounder programs running on the network to which the ER60 Processor Unit is connected. If the Processor Unit is not connected to other echo sounder programs, the list will only contain one entry. This single entry is the echo sounder program running on the local processor unit. transceiver and sensor installation) on other entries than the local echo sounder program. To perform operations on an entry in the list, the entry must be highlighted (selected). To do this, click once the entry. Parameters Name - This column displays the installation name of the echo sounder program entry. An asterisk (*) in front of an entry means that this entry is currently selected data source. Description - This column displays a short description of this program. The description is defined in the Remoting dialogue. 850-164692 / Rev. B 63 Simrad ER60 Operator manual IP address - This column displays the IP address of the computer running the echo sounder program. Logged in - This column displays if the you are logged in to this echo sounder program entry. User name - This column displays the user name to be used when logging in to the program. The user name must exist on the remote application for the log in to succeed. Access level - This column displays the access level for the user name. Change user - Click this button to change the user name used when logging in to the selected entry. Select - Click this button to define the selected (highlighted) entry as the current data source. Related topics Login, page 93 Remoting, page 111 User and Passwords dialogue, page 129 64 850-164692 / Rev. B Dialogue boxes and functions Delete Layer The Delete Layer function is available from the shortcut menus in the Echogram and Numercial views. Purpose and use This command is used to delete the active (selected) layer in the view. To change the layer properties, select Layer Properties from the shortcut menu. Related topics Echogram view, page 11 Numerical view, page 14 Layer Properties, page 90 New Layer, page 101 850-164692 / Rev. B 65 Simrad ER60 Operator manual Depth Output The Depth Output dialogue box is accessed from the Output menu. Purpose This dialogue box is used to output depth data to a dedicated communication port on a specified format. Parameters Port - Select which serial or LAN port to be used for the data communication. Setup - If required, you can set up the necessary communication parameters for the selected port. [. . . ] The Data field shall be decoded according to the specified output structure from the subscription described in chapter Data subscription types. Change data subscriptions The method part of the request shall be set to ChangeSubscription. The ChangeSubscription method has the following parameters. Parameter name subscriptionID dataRequest Description The id of the subscription that should be changed The actual specification of the subscription. This is described in the chapter Data Subscription Types. An example of the contents of the Request field of a ChangeSubscription command to the RemoteDataServer is shown below. <request> <clientInfo> <cid>1</cid> <rid>1</rid> </clientInfo> <type>invokeMethod</type> <targetComponent>RemoteDataServer </targetComponent> <method> <ChangeSubscription> <subscriptionID>1</ subscriptionID > <dataRequest>BottomDetection</dataRequest> </ChangeSubscription> </method> </request> The server application will respond with a Response message. The ChangeSubscription method does not have any output parameters. 152 850-164692 / Rev. B Data interfaces An example of the contents of the Response field of a ChangeSubscription command to the RemoteDataServer is shown below. <response> <clientInfo> <cid dt="3">1</cid> <rid dt="3">1</rid> </clientInfo> <fault> <detail> <errorcode dt="3">0</errorcode> </detail> </fault> <ChangeSubscriptionResponse> </ChangeSusbcriptionResponse> </response> Destroy data subscriptions The method part of the request shall be set to Unsubscribe. [. . . ]