This article is aimed to instrument users that cannot use Nortek Deployment for instrument configuration.

Setting up the deployment plan, can easily be done using the Midas software wizard, however, if you need to configure telemetry for data package transfer over the serial line, this will have to be enabled using commands.

All commands used to configure telemetry settings described in this article, can be found in the Integrator’s Guide- 2D Horizontal Profiler. 

There are several ways to use the commands. You can edit the deployment file directly and upload the edited file to the instrument, or you can be connected to the instrument and send commands through the terminal console directly.  

If you are sending commands directly, follow the steps below:

Open the Command console 

Send the command READCFG to see your deployment plan. Enable NMEA to receive more detailed information about each returned argument

The command used to enable and configuring the telemetry setup for average current data is SETTMAVG command. The command has several available arguments, and the most relevant will be described below. Details about each argument is listed in the Integrator’s Guide. 

As an example, telemetry using data format 100 is configured by sending the command:

SETTMAVG,EN=1,AVG=30,CY=ENU,SO=1,DF=100

(EN .. enable telemetry, AVG .. number of seconds in telemetry average, CZ.. coordinate system, SO.. enable output, DF .. data format)

Send the command SAVE,ALL to save the configuration to the instrument. 

It is necessary to specify the argument SO=1 if data output over the connected communication line is required. If the instrument has both serial and Ethernet communication, the instrument will detect the one used, and data packages will be transmitted over this line. Note that the instrument will not be able to transmit data over both lines at the same time. 

Processed data transmitted over the serial line can also be saved to the instrument recorder, the argument to enable this FO=1. The data will be saved in the same format as the telemetry output as a file named telemetryfile.bin.

This file will be additional to the raw data files. It can be read from the recorder using the command DOWNLOADTM.

It is possible to only save a telemetry file and not output data over the communications line by using the command:

SETTMAVG,EN=1,AVG=30,CY=ENU,FO=1,SO=0,DF=100

If you encounter an error, send the command GETERROR 

This example shows that the command sent it not known, looking closer on the command you can see it its written with an extra 'T'. 

When you have enabled and saved your configuration, you can start the instrument by sending the command START or DEPLOY.