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Conventional supervisory systems require you to define each of the instrument's parameters (or variables) that you want to access from your computer.  Some instruments have hundreds of parameters.  In larger systems this can mean tens of thousands of tags and defining these from scratch could take weeks.

 

SpecView has a built in database containing information on a very wide range of different instruments and their associated parameters (also known as tags).

 

Special configuration tools are used by SpecView's engineers to define the database. These are available, for some drivers only, to qualified users and only then in certain circumstances. It is not possible to add variables to pre-defined instruments from within SpecView. The configuration tools are required to do this. For further information on the above please contact your SpecView representative.

 

The following sections describe in more detail how to setup SpecView to communicate with the instrument(s) either that you have currently connected by Auto Instrument Detection or which you intend to connect by Manually Defining Instruments.  However, if you have already successfully done this then go to Runtime Mode - Using SpecView.

 

The Honeywell HC900 is a special case because the HC Designer files can be imported.