Tag timeout (p15)
Controls the timeout setting for filtered log records. If a particular tag is seen many times in a row, there must be a gap of at least this timeout between tag scans in order for the next tag scan to count as a separate filtered record.
For example, if the tag is read 20 times in 2 seconds, these 20 reads will all be counted as one filtered record if all scans were closer together than the timeout duration. The timeout is reset each time the tag is seen, so even if the tag is held on the mat for one minute it will still generate only one filtered record.
Format: Number of seconds from 1 to 65535
Default: 5
Can be set at any time.
Example: Tag timeout=5
Activate relay on tag (p20)
A True/False setting which controls whether or not the reader will trigger the relay on each new tag. The relay is turned on whenever a First Seen filtered record is generated.
Format: T for true or F for false.
Default: F
Can be set at any time.
Example: Activate relay on tag=T
Beep on tag (p21)
Control when the reader beeps for tag scans.
Format: F for First seen, A for all tag scans, N for no tag scans, B for best seen, D for double beep (first seen and best seen)
Note: Best seen beeps can only be used with virtual line method, see Best seen method below
Default: F
Can be set at any time.
Example: Beep on tag=F
Additional tag prefixes (p36)
One or more additional tag prefixes to accept. By default the reader only accepts tags which begin with the characters 0580, 0597, or 0841.
Format: One or more groups of 4 hex nibbles separated by commas like 0A00 or 0A00,1A1F
Default: Empty
Can be set at any time.
Example: Additional tag prefixes=0a00,0A10
Append RSSI to filtered records
A true/false setting which controls whether tag RSSI (receive signal strength indication) is appended to the end of filtered messages.
If true, the RSSI (2 hex digits) is appended after the ‘FS’, ‘BS’ or ‘LS’ record type.
Format: T for true or F for false.
Default: F
Can be set at any time.
Example: Append RSSI to filtered records=T
Filtered message types (p47)
The setting controls which types of filtered messages are written to filtered.log (and sent to filtered log destinations like ethernet etc).
Normally the reader ouputs FS, BS and LS messages.
This setting can be used to limit the message types which are logged.
Also, it can be used to remove the suffix, if third party timing software requires that (i.e. FSNOSUFFIX will log only FS messages but will not put the letters FS into the log records).
Format: One of the following strings:
ALL,
FS,
BS,
LS,
FSNOSUFFIX,
BSNOSUFFIX,
LSNOSUFFIX,
FS,BS,
BS,FS,
FS,LS,
LS,FS,
BS,LS,
LS,BS
Default: ALL
Can be set at any time.
Example: Filtered message types=FSNOSUFFIX
Best seen method
Normally the best seen record is generated from the best RSSI seen during the tag timeout period. But this means that the best seen record will be generated at the same time as the last seen record, which is 5 seconds from the last time the tag has been seen, thus cannot be used with video timing etc.
With the virtual line method, a best seen record will be generated as soon as the tag reaches its highest read strength over the mat, thus can be used to trigger video timing systems. Also, when using virtual line method, the beep on tag setting can be set to best seen to generate a single beep per tag when it is right over the top of the mat.
Note: this setting is not supported on V1 readers. The normal method is always used on V1 readers.
Format: N for normal method, V for virtual line method.
Default: N
Can be set at any time.
Example: Best seen method=V // Use virtual line method for best seen