Monitor blackbox

Only available in: BSS and BMS

Monitoring a black box shows the current state of the black box.

Monitor a blackbox

A blackbox can be monitored one ship at a time. To open the monitor screen, right click the mouse on the relevant ship in the ship overview screen and choose Monitor blackbox from the pop up menu. A connection with the blackbox is being attempted. If succesfull, the monitor screen will gradually fill with data.

Note: if you would like to see the communication from and to the blackbox during monitoring mode, you first have to open the Terminal screen.

Monitor screen content

The monitor screen is divided in 11 blocks, in which the following data is shown.

GPS data

The following information is displayed in the GPS data block:

Field	Content
Date	The date in the blackbox noted as ddmmyyyy
Time	The time in the blackbox noted as hhmmss
Latitude	Latitude of the position in [00]DDMM.MMMM N/S
Longitude	Longitude of the position in [0]DDDMM.MMMM E/W
Speed	The gps speed from 0.0 - 99.9
Course	The course in degrees
GPS quality code	The gps quality in code (0, 1, 2, 3)
D quality	The gps mode in code (1, 2, 3) with suffix: - -o for gps antanna open - -s for gps antenna short
Average speed	The average speed in knots

Analogue inputs

The following information is displayed in the analogue inputs block, per analogue input:

Column	Content
Name	The analogue input
Value	The pulse input value in mV
LA	The LA in mV
HA	The HA in Mv
Hys	The hysteresis in mV
Filter	The filter in seconds
Delay	The delay in seconds

Pulse inputs

The following information is displayed in the pulse inputs block, per pulse input:

Column	Content
Name	The pulse input
Value	The pulse input value in mV
DC
PPR
Factor	The configuration factor for gear or shaft of the pulse input

Ship state settings

Under construction 

System info

The following information is displayed in the system info block:

Field	Content
Ship	The ship code
Serial number	The serial number of the black box
Version BB application	The current software version on the blackbox, noted as P13140-10 {version number}
Version BB bootloader	The current bootloader version on the blackbox, noted as P13140-20 {version number}
Blackbox type	The type of the blackbox
Last configured	The datetime of the last configuration, noted as dd-mm-yyyy hh-mm-ss
Last updated	The datetime of the last software update, noted as dd-mm-yyyy hh-mm-ss

Alarms

Under construction

Board monitoring

The following information is displayed in the board monitoring info block:

Field	Content
Board supply
Supply charge reg
Supply battery
Supply bat mon
Charge current
Charge current mon
Battery capacity
Battery temp
Supply namur 1
Supply namur 2
Supply 5Vb
Supply 5Va
Supply 3V4
Board temp
Supply 15V
Supply -15V

Jumpers

Under construction

Status info

The following information is displayed in the pulse inputs block, per pulse input:

Field	Content
Registration pointer
Ship state
Recording paused
Record buffer full
BB status
Failure counter

Modem info

The following information is displayed in the modem info block:

Field	Content
GSM signal quality
GSM signal strength
GSM state
GSM substate
SMS number	The mobile service number used for sms messages
SMS service number	The mobile service number used for sms messages
SMS collect time
SMS end time
Max SMS messages per day	The maximum number of sms messages send per day

Setting info

The following information is displayed in the setting info block:

Field	Content
GPS alarm delay
Power alarm delay
Interval unknown
Interval standby
State deep disabled
Text message duration
Max concessionaires