Navigation:  Tutorials > Networked data acquisition tutorial > DEWESoft 7.0  data acquisition, processing, analyzing and storage software Remotely Controlling a Slave MU

In this section we are using only the master client computer to remotely configure and control a slave MU from this master client. The measurement unit is set to Slave MU mode, and we have already connected to it using the steps from the preceding section. All steps are done on the CLIENT! 

We are not touching the MU at all. It could be a few feet away, on the other side of the building, or miles away. As long as it has a reliable network connection to the client, we can control it from this client!

 

"Local" setup

Now click the Ch. setup button. If you know what the DEWESoft Setup screen normally looks like, you will notice a subtle but important difference:

 

Note the buttons for LOCAL and WEBSTER. If you have more than one MU, their names will be shown on this bar as well. The local computer is our master client, so it does not have any real measurement channels of its own.
However, it still has a Math buttons. It is interesting to note that you can perform math functions in real time on this client using any channels that are transferred from the MU’s! You can even combine channels from more than one MU here in math channels – as long as the MU’s are synchronized !

 

WEBSTER setup

Click on the WEBSTER button so that we can proceed to set this MU up.

 

You can see that WEBSTER has four channels set up to be transferred in real time to the client. Of course they will also be stored on the local MU, because this has been selected by default on the hardware setup screen, NET page.

Note the three buttons on NET toolbar beside selected WEBSTER: