TEMPERATURE MONITORING Instruction Guide This application will allow you to send email alarms based on temperatures recorded from 1-Wire temperature sensors connected directly to the X-600M. These alarms will be adjustable by the user, so changing environments can be taken into account. EQUIPMENT NEEDED TEMPERATURE MONITORING INSTRUCTIONS STEP 1: Basic Setup and Wiring Begin by connecting a […]

TEMPERATURE MONITORING Instruction Guide

This application will allow you to send email alarms based on temperatures recorded from 1-Wire temperature sensors connected directly to the X-600M. These alarms will be adjustable by the user, so changing environments can be taken into account.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

TEMPERATURE MONITORING INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1: Basic Setup and Wiring

Begin by connecting a 9-28V power supply (24V power supply recommended) to the Vin+ and Vin- terminals on the X-600M (A regulated power supply is recommended). Verify that the power supply is rated for the operating current of the X-600M. (For more information see Section 2.3.2 of the X-600M User’s Manual).

Connect one of the Ethernet ports to a 10 Base-T or 10/100 Base-T Ethernet connection. Typically an Ethernet hub, switch, or router. (For more information see Section 2.3.6 of the X-600M User’s Manual).

Attach the positive wires of the 1-Wire temperature sensors to the +5V terminal on the X-600M.

Connect the ground wires of the 1-Wire temperature sensors to the Gnd and the data lines to the Dat terminal.

NOTE: Be sure that all the connections to any of the devices are clean and don’t have the possibility of shorting out, and that all the screws are tight.

STEP 2: Adding/Configuring I/O

Access the X-600M setup pages by typing its IP address into the address bar of your internet browser followed by /setup.html (i.e., 192.168.1.2/setup.html). Log into the setup pages (default user name: admin, password: webrelay) and navigate to the I/O menu tab.

Choose the 1-Wire Sensors sub-menu, and click Add New Sensor.

Choose one of the sensor addresses from the drop-down box, give it a Description, but leave the Name as the default value. Click Add.

Repeat the process for the second sensor.

Next, navigate to the Registers tab, and click Add New Register. We are going to use these registers to hold our adjustable alarm values.

Call it highAlarm, then set the Type to Float, the Decimal Values to 2, and the Initial Value to 0 (or a default alarm value of your choice).

Create another register, and call this one lowAlarm. Give it the same settings as the previous register.

STEP 3: Conditional Events

Once all the I/O have been added, navigate to the Control/Logic menu tab, then to the Conditional Events sub-menu. Here we will add the control events.

Click Add New Event. This event will send an email when the first sensor goes below the lowAlarm register value.

Set the Type to Analog, and the Condition to X less than A. X will be the owSensor1, and A will be set to Variable, and the lowAlarm register. Then adjust the rest of the settings to your own specifications.

Create another event for the highAlarm on the second sensor.

Set the Type to Analog, and the Condition to X greater than A. X will be the owSensor2, and A will be set to Variable, and the highAlarm register. Then adjust the rest of the settings to your own specifications.

STEP 4: Actions

Now that the events have been set up we can tie actions to those events.

Navigate to the Actions sub-menu, and click Add New Action.

Set the Event Source to the first event (condEvent1), and set the Type to Send Email.

Choose to whom you would like to send the email from the drop-down list of users, and then give it a Subject and Text.

Repeat the same steps for the second event (condEvent2).

STEP 5: Dashboards

To finish up this application we will add the dashboards:

Navigate to the Edit Dashboards menu tab. You will notice that a panel has been added by default so we just need to add a widget. Do this by clicking the small ‘+” button in the top right-hand corner of the panel. This widget will display all of the temperature information, so you can give it a Title (e.g., Temperature Controls).

Add a component by clicking the “+” button in the top right corner of the Widget. In the Type box choose 1-Wire Sensor.

In the Data Source row, choose the first sensor (owSensor1).

You can choose to display a background color when an event has occurred, for example you can change the color to red when condEvent1 is active.

Finish adding the component, by clicking the Add button.

Repeat these steps for the second sensor (owSensor2), but change the event to condEvent2.

Click the “+” button again, and set the Type to Register under the Numeric Control heading. This will setup a box that will allow you to adjust the alarm value.

Set the Data Source to lowAlarm, and disable all the controls except the Spinner. Then set the rest of the specifications to values specific to your application.

Repeat for the highAlarm register.

Now that all of the settings have been added be sure to click the Commit Changes button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to activate your new temperature monitoring functionality.

Once this is done your will receive email alarms whenever the sensors go outside the boundaries specified. You can also view the dashboard and see the current temperatures, and adjust the alarm values!

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