1.376 Monterey-140
This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Chaparral Monterey-140 receiver / antenna controller. The sat-nms driver for this device only sets the position of a polarmount antenna which is controlled by the Monterey-140. The driver does not control any other parameter.
Device window pages
The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .
--- The main parameter page controls the antenna pointing. Please note that the displayed pointing is the recently commanded value. The Monterey-140 does not provide the possibility to read back the actual antenna position via the RS232 interface. After power on the the position field is empty for this reason.The Monterey-140 accepts integer position values from 0 to 9999. The position value at the parameter page has an offset included which is set at the configuration page. Typical position values with the offset included are -400 .. +400.
--- The faults page.
--- The device info page.
--- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.
Configuration parameters
At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the antenna controller.
| loLimit |
The lowest position value the controller accepts. |
| hiLimit |
The highest position value the controller accepts. |
| reference |
The reference / offset value. If this value is set to 4500 (the default) and a position of 200 is commanded to the device driver, the driver sets 4700 at the device. |
| Serial |
Remember to set the line parameters for the serial interface connected to the controller. The Monterey-140 expects 9600,N,8,1 . |
Variables defined by this device driver
| info.driver |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| lowLevel.cmd |
TEXT |
|
StringRange |
| lowLevel.reply |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| faults.99 |
ALARM |
R/O |
AlarmFlagRange R/O (Communication) |
| faults.commstat |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| info.type |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| info.port |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| info.frame |
TEXT |
R/O |
StringRange R/O |
| config.loLimit |
INTEGER |
SAVE SETUP |
IntegerRange (0 .. 9999) |
| config.hiLimit |
INTEGER |
SAVE SETUP |
IntegerRange (0 .. 9999) |
| config.reference |
INTEGER |
SAVE SETUP |
IntegerRange (0 .. 9999) |
| internal.p |
INTEGER |
R/O |
IntegerRange R/O (0 .. 0) |
| position |
INTEGER |
|
IntegerRange (-9999 .. 9999) |