Instruction Manual

Instruction manual I ELOshield
Rev. 20 09.03.2020 Page 53 of 85
8.4 Establishing the connection
The serial connection control panel is provided in the top left section of the application panel.
To establish the connection, select the COM port from the list of available ports, and then press the
Connect button.
If a corresponding ELOshield device (a pedestrian module, a stationary module or a vehicle module)
is connected to the port, the connection status changes to Connected. Otherwise, the connection
will not be established.
8.5 Saving current configuration of warehouses
The connected device will be
automatically added to the list of devices
on the left panel of the main application
window.
The entire list is an overview of all used
devices in one warehouse and marks
double used IDs and other failures in red
as faulty.
The list of devices including their configurations is strongly recommended to be saved to the
indicated .elsx file. To do so, press the Save As… button above the list of devices. Such a file may be
uploaded by pressing the Open file and pointing to the .elsx file.
8.6 Transferring settings from/to the device
In order to send the configuration, the device must be connected to the computer and application.
All configuration parameters will be saved to the device by pressing the Send to the Device button
and will be uploaded from the device by pressing the Read from the Device button.
8.7 Saving the current configuration of single devices
The current configuration may be saved to the .els file. To do so, press the Save As... button and
indicate a location and filename on the hard drive.