Connecting a demonstration set to your dSS¶

Prerequisites¶

• A demonstration set (dSK10)
• 2 cables for RS485 bus soldered into a 9PIN female connector
• A USB to RS485 adapter (For example: http://www.spectra.ch/produktliste.cfm?GruppeID=58&Hauptgruppe=50 )
• A PC/Laptop running Linux and the dSS application

Connecting it all together
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• Make sure you soldered the proper pins on the RS485 adaptor (There is no standard so, some devices require Pin 1 and 2 to be soldered, some Pin 1 and 6)
• Connect the 2 cables into the dSM (You might need to open the white box for this, please make sure the box is unplugged when doing this)
• Power up the demonstration set and wait until the LED on the DSM has turned green (Blue means that it is still waiting for devices to subscribe).
• Run the ds485d (from the ds485 stack package) on your PC, started from the command line with the serial device as parameter, like: 'ds485d -F /dev/ttyUSB0'.
• The ds485d requires that the host PC receives its own RS485 data packets. Either set the dip switches on your RS485 dongle accordingly, or run the ds485d with the "-L" parameter to create an internal software loopback.
• Start the dSS application
• Open up a browser and navigate to https://localhost:8080
• On the dSS web page you would see now the components of the demonstration set and can turn them on and off.

Connection via ethernet to a dSS11¶

• If you have a dSS11 connected to your dSM you can run the dSS locally on your PC and connect via Ethernet to the remote dS system.
• You need to have SSH enabled on your dSS11, this can be configured on the configuration pages.
• On your PC create a tunnel for the dS485 protocol via ssh with the ssh command line tool, like: 'ssh -L 8442:localhost:8442 dssadmin@ip.of.my.dss'
• Start the dSS application, continue like above

Platform specific hints¶

• dSS-Small