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If the Radio ID number of the Tracking Unit still does not appear in the PBase Activity Monitor
program screen, then the Premier Base may not be configured to search for the correct
number of Tracking Units.
The Premier Base can search for up to thirty Radio ID’s beyond it’s own.
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XAMPLE: If the Premier Base Radio ID is 9000001 it will search for the next sequential Radio
ID of 9000002 and so on, up to 9000031. To save download time, the Premier Base can be
configured to search for a limited number of Radio ID’s.
To adjust the number of Radio ID’s the Premier Base will search for, see
Base Radio Configuration.
The current setting will be displayed next to Number of Units. This setting should match the
number of Tracking Units that you have. If you change this setting, it will only be updated in
the Premier Base after the PbasWcfg.exe program is run. The PbasWcfg program is used to
configure the Premier Base. This program is executed automatically whenever you make
changes to the Base Radio Configuration and click the Set Base Configuration button. The
PbasWcfg program can also be found in the InboundWire folder.
Data Flow
The Premier Base wirelessly downloads and stores the Historical data from the Shadow Tracker
Premier Units independently, without the need for a computer. The Historical data remains in
non-volatile memory in the Premier Base until a download is requested by the Shadow Tracker
Professional software program.
When a download is either requested or scheduled from the Premier Base, the Wireless Grabber
executes the PBase Data Extractor program, which handles the communications and data
transfer between the Computer and the Premier Base.
The PBase Data Extractor program downloads the data from the Premier Base and writes a
binary file for each Unit, with a .BIN extension, into the InboundWire folder, then the Premier
Base is erased. The binary file is then decompressed into a text file, with a .GPS extension, which
is placed into the same InboundWire folder.
After this GPS file is written the PBase Data Extractor program will close and the Wireless
Grabber program will pickup the file and run it against several validation checks for data integrity.
If the GPS file passes the validation checks it is replicated and placed into the Processing folder
with a .FP and .GPP extension. Once the files are placed into the Processing folder and the Data
Processor program is requested to Process Files, it picks up the file and processes it line by line
into the database.
If either the Wireless Grabber or Data Processor programs encounter a problem with the file it will
be moved to the Unprocessed folder and an error will be written into the database for this file.