View status of logger

The status of a logger is a set of properties that are saved inside the logger. The properties are used by the logger and SiteView software. When SiteView communicates with the logger, it first retrieves all properties of the logger, parses them into meaningful information and populates them on the graphical user interface.

If the communications between SiteView and the logger was established successfully from the above chapter, the status of the logger appears in a tab page illustrated below:

The tab page caption shows the name and the serial number of the logger to identify this tab page.

The status page shows the general, the channel level, and other settings.

The status page is for viewing purpose only. To edit the properties and save them back to the logger, please go to Logger Configuration dialog by clicking Configure tool bar button.

Through the tool bar buttons you can finish other tasks described in the following chapters.

Please refer to Status of logger for the detailed explanation of each field.

General Status

This page specifies the basic logger status information like start and end time, memory usage, logging mode etc.

Channel properties specify how many channels the logger has and each channel’s information such as if the channel is enabled or disabled, the description and the applied equation etc.

Alarm and Excitation Status (No excitation controls for PRECISE-LOG series)

This page specifies how the logger acts if there is an alarm.

Excitation Control status is displayed in this page like Excitation Warm-up Delay and if the excitation control connects to the terminal pole.

Know if logger operate properly

It is important to know that the logger is operating properly. What status can we use to tell if the logger has stopped logging data and is operating abnormally? The first status you should look at is the blue bold section just above the Channel information:

This status tells you if the logger is logging data or has stopped. Other information it reports can be:

The logger has not started logging data. It will start at XXXX.
The logger is in start-delay mode and is counting down the timer. Once the timer goes to zero the logger will start logging data.

If you set Time to Start field to a time in the future you will see the above status. If you want the logger to record data right after the logger is configured you can set this field to now or a time in the past.

The logger has stopped logging data and has been dormant for XXXX.
If the logger is in dormant mode, it stops logging data and waits for SiteView to download the data.

Usually, this is because the When Memory Full field was set to Stop Logging when the logger was configured, and when the memory is full the logger will stop logging and in dormant mode.

If you want the logger to keep recording data you can set When Memory Full field to Continue Logging.

Data has rolled over and in FIFO mode
If the logger is in First-In-First-Out mode, the logger keeps overwriting the oldest data with the new measured data.

If you are only interested in a specific time frame, you may need to set When Memory Full field to Stop Logging. In this case, the logger will stop logging when the time passed the Time to End parameter.

Another status you should focus is the battery level. If the on-board battery level is too low you will get the red warning sign indicating it’s time to replace the battery.