System Name (p00)
This setting is used for the following:
- Network hostname/NETBIOS name (MS Windows can find the reader using this system name rather than IP address)
- Displayed on the top line of the LCD (the top line is shared with System name, Company name and firmware version).
Format: Any string up to 29 characters in length.
Default: TimeMachine
Can be set at any time.
Example: System name=Start line
Company name (p29)
This setting is used for the following:
- Displayed on the top line of the LCD (the top line is shared with System name, Company name and firmware version).
Format: Any string up to 29 characters in length.
Default: Trident
Can be set at any time.
Example: Company name=Contoso
Reader ID (p30)
A single alphanumeric character A-Z, a-z, 0-9 which identifies the reader in multi-reader setups.
This ID character is inserted as the 3rd character in the raw and filtered logs and also in the IPICO style trigger messages.
Format: A single uppercase or lowercase character from A-Z, a-z or digit from 0-9
Default: a
Can be set at any time.
Example: Reader ID=Z
Time zone offset (p02)
If your reader has GPS function, this setting is used to calculate local time from GPS time.
This setting is also used to convert SNTP (network time) to local time.
Note: automatic daylight savings is not supported, so if your area observes daylight savings, this parameter should be adjusted at the start and end of the daylight savings period.
Format: Timezone specifier like -9:30, +07:00, etc. If the sign (+, -) is not given, + is assumed. Minutes are optional, so a value of 6 equates to +06:00.
Default: Not set – GPS or SNTP will not function until this is set to a valid value
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: Time zone offset=+10:00 // Set timezone for Brisbane, Australia.
To disable GPS and SNTP functionality, set this parameter to disabled eg: Time zone offset=disabled
SNTP server
Specify the SNTP server to use to get time updates over the internet.
In order for this to work, your reader will need to have internet access via properly configured ethernet network or built in 3G connectivity.
Format: URL of SNTP server
Default: blank
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: SNTP server=0.pool.ntp.org // Try to get time updates from global NTP server
SNTP poll time
Specify how often the time should be updated from the SNTP server, in seconds.
Default: 3600
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: SNTP poll time=7200 // Update SNTP time every 2 hours
GPS enabled
A True/False setting which can be used to completely disable GPS features.
When set to false, all GPS features are disabled. SNTP and other time related features can still be used.
Format: T for true or F for false.
Default: T
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: GPS enabled=F // disable GPS
GPS autocorrect limit (p65)
Maximum limit (in seconds) for automatic GPS clock adjustment (note, this parameter is also used for automatic SNTP adjustment).
When the GPS lock or SNTP time is received, it will be applied automatically if the time difference is smaller than this limit.
If the time difference is larger, then a prompt will be shown on the LCD asking if the clock should be adjusted to the new time.
Format: Number of seconds from -1 to 2147483647. -1 will never show the prompt (always automatically adjust the clock). 0 will always show the prompt (never automatically adjust the clock). A value of eg. 60 will adjust the clock automatically if the time difference is less than one minute, otherwise will display a prompt.
Default: 60
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: GPS autocorrect limit=0 // Always show a prompt, never change the time without prompting first GPS autocorrect limit=60 // Only show a prompt if changing the time by more than 1 minute GPS autocorrect limit=-1 // Always use GPS or SNTP time as soon as it is available, never show a prompt
NOTE:
If the autocorrect limit is > 0, then when the GPS connects to the reader, a display prompt will apear, request if the user wants to accepts the GPS time, or irnore the GPS time.
To navigate this menu, press the config/tune button quickly to alternate between option 1 or 2.
Hold down the config/tune button to accept the highlighted option. (Either accept or ignore the GPS time)
Name log files by date
A True/False setting which controls the naming of raw.log, filtered.log, and status.log.
When set to true, the log files are named as raw_YYYYMMDD.log, filtered_YYYYMMDD.log, and status_YYYYMMDD.log.
Format: T for true or F for false.
Default: F
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: Name log files by date=T
Delete log files after N days
If Name log files by date is set to true, this parameter can be set to delete old log files after a certain number of days.
A setting of 1 will delete log files after they are 1 day old (in other words, they have not been written to for 1 whole day).
Format: Number of days after which to delete old log files from 0 to 255.
Default: 0 – do not delete old log files
Can be set in config.ini only.
Example: Delete log files after N days=30
Read rate time constant
This parameter controls how the read rate is filtered on the LCD.
If time constant is set to zero (default) then the LCD will just display how many tags were read in the preceding second, with no filtering.
If the time constant is 1 or more, a low pass filter is used with a time constant of approximately that many seconds.
Eg 1 is not much filtering, 10 is a reasonable amount, 100 would take a very long time to change, would only be useful for static testing.
This parameter is mainly for testing purposes.
Format: Number of seconds for read rate filter
Default: 0 – no filtering
Can be set at any time.
Example: Read rate time constant=10 // Filter the read rate displayed on the LCD
Log statistics (p27)
A True/False setting which controls whether the reader logs technical statistics to its status.log file. The statistics can be useful for debugging any issues with the reader.
Format: T for true or F for false.
Default: F
Can be set at any time.
Example: Log statistics=T
Verbose debug (p40)
A True/False setting which enables or disables extra debugging information to be logged to status.log.
For example, setting this to true will result in (a lot of) GPS information being logged.
Format: T for true, F for false
Default: F
Can be set at any time.
Example: Verbose debug=T
Summary info seconds
Length of time (in seconds) between summary info messages being written to filtered log. When this parameter is set to zero no messages will be generated. The messages are in JSON format and include:
“uptime” – system uptime in seconds
“gps” – gps coordinates or “unknown”
“unique reads” – number of unique tag reads from all mats/antennas
“temperature”
“battery” – battery voltage
“GPS sats in view” – number of GPS satellites in view of the receiver
Format: Number of seconds between info messages, or zero to disable messages.
Default: 0
Can be set at any time.
Example: Summary info seconds=600 // write summary info every 10 minutes