OPTOFORCE INSTALLATION GUIDE

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 Analog data visualization

 Force vector representation

 2D and 3D plot

 Data Logging

 Easy to use

CPU: Intel Core i5 (or equivalent) RAM: 2GB

Operating systems:

• Windows 7

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The supplied kit contains the following elements:

 1 x OMD sensor

 1 x Data Acquisition Board (DAQ) with USB interface

 1x USB cable

 1 x Pendrive

On the pendrive you can find the following folders:

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Driver USB driver for the DAQ (for manual installation)

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ODV OptoForce Data Visualization Software (runs from the pendrive) \SDK OptoForce Software Development Kit (without installation) \Setup Contains all the setup files (Driver, ODV, SDK)

\ This document in PDF format

\ Autorun.exe (Menu for the automated installation)

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Execute AutoRun.exe from the Pendrive. First Step

Second Step

The OptoForce DAQ requires a device driver in order to operate.

Click on Install USB Driver and follow the driver installation instructions. If the vendor of the driver needs to be confirmed click onInstall.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILAGE COULD BE REQUIRED FOR THE DRIVER INSTALLATION IF SO PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR!

INSTALLATION STEPS

Third Step

Once the Driver Installation finished, click onInstall Data Visualization (3D or 6D) and follow the instructions. Once the installation has finished the software will be automatically opened.

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Unpack the archives to an optional directory

List of archives (where„x.x.x” is the actual version number):

• ODV3D: DAQ material/USB/ODV/ODV_3D/LINUX/ODV3D_vx.x.x.tar.gz

• ODV6D: DAQ material/USB/ODV/ODV_6D/LINUX/ODV6D_vx.x.x.tar.gz

• API: DAQ material/USB/SDK/LINUX/1.x/LINUX_API_v1.x.x.tar.gz First Step

Second Step

The OptoForce DAQ does not need any drivers to be installed under Linux systems.

To operate the Data Visualization softwares you should go through these steps (ODV3D/6D):

 Start a Terminal

 Change directory where you unpacked the ODV3D/6D software

 Enter or

 To start the application , enter or

 To start application without sudo, type

then do a logout/login procedure to apply the settings.

 After the application started it automatically opens „dev/ttyACMn” (the DAQ device, value ofnmay changes)

 You may experience problems when you connect your DAQ to the PC and almost immediatelystart ODV 3D or ODV 6D: in this case the application does not always recognize the DAQ or it recognizes the DAQ, but some seconds later the connection lost. This phenomenon is caused by a daemon, namely ‚modemmanager’. You can do fix this problem in two ways:

INSTALLATION STEPS

sudo chmod +x ODV3D sudo chmod +x ODV6D

sudo ./ODV3D sudo ./ODV6D sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

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1. You should read about the aim of this daemon (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager) and if you do not need it, the easiest way to get rid of the problem is to remove it:

2. The second way is to temporaly prevent the daemon from running:

and

Now you can start ODV3D or ODV6D and connect your DAQ.

To make the service available again, you should move back „manager.service” back to its original folder:

and restart the service:

(Note1: In some cases just stopping and starting of the modemmanager

deamon can fix the problem. If this is the case then you do not need moving the file. Note₂: The name of the file can be different (i.e. not

org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service but org.freedesktop.ModemManager.service)

sudo apt-get purge modemmanager

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service ~/manager.service

sudo stop modemmanager sudo killall modem-manager

sudo mv ~/manager.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service

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TROUBLESHOOTING

If in the OptoForce Data Visualization software on the Connectiontab, the Available Sensors shows 0, then:

 Manual driver installation might be needed. In this case please check the appropriate driver installation manual on the pendrive (\Driver\driver_installation_xpordriver_installation_win7)

 Try to disconnect and reconnect the DAQ while the software is running

 Check the cables and the connections (see above picture), the blue LED must continuously light (showing the power ON state) and the green LED must blink (showing the data communication)

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TROUBLESHOOTING

If in the OptoForce Data Visualization software on the Connectiontab, the Available Sensors shows 0, then:

 Close the application, disconnect and reconnect the DAQ and restart the application after ~15-20 seconds (see installation seciton of the guide)

 Check the cables and the connections (see picture on the previous page), the blue LED must continuously light (showing the power ON state) and the green LED must blink (showing the data communication)

 If the application does not start and produces and error message like”version `GLIBCXX_3.4.xx' not found (required by ./ODV6D or ./ODV3D)” then you should go through these steps:

1. Start a terminal and update g++ to version 4.8:

2. Type „sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test” 3. Type „sudo apt-get update”

4. Type „sudo apt-get install g++-4.”

5. You can check other dependencies by typing or

If the application cannot open output file when you want to use theWrite to file

function, then please start the application with or with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install g++-4.8

sudo ldd ODV3D sudo ldd ODV6D

sudo ./ODV3D sudo ./ODV6D