Specifications

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Normally, the MOVA unit will only ‘phone home’ when it has detected an unrecoverable
error, e.g. when its error count has reached or exceeded 20 preventing the MOVA unit
putting itself back on-line.
However, by setting the ‘Phone Home’ flag to a value in the range 1 to 20, the user can
force the MOVA unit to phone home whenever the error count reaches this limit.
For example, it may be useful to set the ‘Phone Home’ flag to ‘1’ to force a MOVA unit
to ‘Phone Home’ whenever the error count is set to ‘1’ or higher, i.e. whenever the unit
detects any fault. Alternatively, setting the flag to ‘5’ would force the MOVA unit to
‘Phone Home’ only after more serious faults.
9.7.4 View MOVA Messages (VM)
The commissioning screen is mainly concerned with checking the I/O connections to
the MOVA unit. To aid diagnosis of run-time problems with the MOVA algorithm, MOVA
produces a series of output messages.
To view these MOVA messages, select the ‘VM - View MOVA Messages’ option from
the main menu:
ENTER OPTION . . . VM
Enter number of minutes messages output for <1-9> or 0 for continuous
(NB – Press ANY key to pause messages) ENTER NUMBER ...
Abandon messages now ? (y/n)Y
Return to continue
Enter ‘0’ so that the MOVA unit outputs messages continuously since the messages
can be stopped at any time by simply pressing any key and then pressing ‘Y’ to confirm
that you do wish to stop the messages. The main menu will re-appear after ‘Return’ is
pressed.
The messages themselves are by no means self-explanatory because it is essential to
minimise the amount of text within each message.
Once the messages start appearing, press the ‘F3’ key and the MOVA Communications
application will show a full screen display of the information it receives in the messages
in a much more understandable form.
To exit view messages, press the ‘F4’ key to close down the full screen displays and
then press any key to inform the MOVA unit that no more messages are required.
9.7.5 Other Menu Options
Details about displaying the average flows and the assessment log can be found in the
document AG12 available from TRL.
If printouts of the various logs are required, then the log should be displayed on the
screen as normal and the output recorded to a file on the PC.