How to Connect to the Web Dashboard on the SCU5 Controller

hello everyone today we're going to look at how to connect our scu5 controller to a laptop or maybe a computer without the need for any PLC programming we have the ability to connect to our controller and have a quick snapshot of what the sensor is seeing and look at various parameters that are coming out from the controller we call it a web dashboard and this one is available so that anybody trying to planning to use our system with the industrial ethernet output on it they'll have a quick way to prototype and quickly connect our system to to a computer and see that everything is functioning as expected before they start writing the PLC programming that's what we're going to show today how to do it and for that I have a setup here with two sensors in this case we're just going to use One sensor at this time so we got a couple of sensors connected to our controller and here's our controller and then we'll show how we can look at the IP address from this controller and how we can connect it to a computer and we'll show that in a little bit okay so we're going to first set up this controller for the proper app in this case we have Sensor 2 connected and the sensor is actually looking at both edges of the web so we're going to set that up for width measurement application so go in the tools power user sensor and I'm going to disable sensor one and then enable sensor 2. this is a WPS sensor so we're going to toggle that switch as well and then set this to Center mode and another way we have it set for Center mode the next step is to make sure that it's set to width so we're going to go into the analog output and then width as the option and now it should show the web um with the center line and also shows the width of the web now in order for us to make sure that we are able to get this data through Ethernet before we connect to a PLC we can do the quick connection to our web browser in the dashboard and for us to do that we need to make sure that we have the right network setting and then make sure that the computer is connected to the same network so in order to do that go into tools power user communication get the IP address of the device in the subnet and Gateway if we need to change these settings we can just change the settings you can refer to one of our previous videos where we showed that and once that is done what we can do is we can go to the computer and open the web browser at first we need to make sure that the computer is on the same network we can do that by going into the computer settings what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go into control panel and then click on network and then we can click on the the network settings here and in this case we're connected to the Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi in order to find the IP address for that Network you can go in and type in command prompt and then be config slash all so this particular network is connected to the Wi-Fi is connected to 192.168.1.1 which is the same Gateway that we had connected to in the su5 controller so we're all good all we need to do is to type in the IP address of our controller that's 192 168 1.100. and now you should be able to see the dashboard so the dashboard provides you with the real-time information on what the controller is seeing so you're seeing the width displayed here we have connected to the Sensor 2 and that's what it's showing Sensor 2 Sensor 2 is set in Center mode so both left and right Edge are enabled this particular sensor WPS 112 has got 896 pixels 127 Micron and that's what it's showing here and then it's also providing you a width output right here and the width output is 53.34 millimeters now this dashboard like I said it's just a quick way for us to look at the parameters from the system from the controller and that data that goes into the ethernet we're able to quickly view it and this way we can test the system make sure that it works as it's supposed to work before we even need to start programming anything for example if I go into our controller and oops if I go into the controller and then change some of the settings for example instead of this being in automatic I can put it to freeze and go in here and change the thresholding method and if we put it to static and if you come back to the web dashboard you can see that now the thresholding is static and if I change that to Dynamic then you can see that it automatically changes that to Dynamic the dashboard is just a way for us to see the data it doesn't allow us to set parameters on the controller this is just in Denver for safety purposes but a quick way for us to look at all the information that is coming from the system we also provide an ability to log this information if you are if you want to collect data for some extended period of time and then see how the data looks like you'll be able to download the data and it downloads it into a CSV file and you can look at all the parameters I think there are like 20 or 30 Columns of data that comes in and if you want to set it up to download the data automatically then what you can do is you can just click on this and you can select how often you want to download the data and you can also select how many data points per second do you want to collect for example I can say I want to collect four samples per second and then download the data every 30 minutes and just to show you how that works I'm going to set it to one minute and as soon as one minute expires it's gonna automatically download that data into a file and we can also set up Automatic download options and folders where we can download it this information is just available in your web browser settings and that way you can let the system collect the data automatic at the frequency that you have set and and then you can just come back later and then look at the data and do it so as you saw it just downloaded this next set of data there in the file itself has the date and time and all those information there so you can go back and look at that that's a quick overview of the how to connect to our web dashboard if you have if you are through a network in the next video we're going to see how we can connect it to a computer directly without a network thank you for watching And subscribe to our channel for more informational videos about our product