Vehicle Settings Talk



Enter the TELCO MIN for this vehicle (if one is required). This is the TELCO Mobile ID Number. This can be the telephone number of a vehicle equipped with a cellular telephone based modem. It can also be an address in the form of: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn,ppp where nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the IP address and ppp is the port number (e.g. 166.130.101.33,6100). It is also used for E-Mail addresses. Use the part of the e-mail address that follows the ‘@’ sign (e.g. UNIT1@orbcomm.net would be Vehicle ID ‘UNIT1’ and TELCO MIN would be ‘orbcomm.net’). For Cellemetry devices enter the Cellemetry Server address and port (e.g. prodgw.cellemetry.com,6500). Click the Web Help button to go to the web site for technical support help on this topic.

Enter the Password for this vehicle (if one is required). The password of the vehicle modem. This parameter is used for vehicle modems that require a password for security purposes (ORBCOMM tracking devices can be set up to use passwords). Only use this field if the vehicle modem requires a password to allow you to communicate with it. If a Cellemetry device is used and it has multiple Command MINs then enter the starting Command MIN in the Password field (e.g. 0041320400).

Select an IOP or Server from the list that this vehicle will be reporting to. Select which IOP or Server is to be used to communicate with the vehicle. An entry must be added if you will be sending commands to a vehicle (e.g. ‘Get Position’, ‘Send Message’, etc…). All updates coming from an IOP or Server will be processed if a Vehicle ID is defined even if an IOP or Server is not defined in the ‘Your choices for this box' list. The connection to I/O Processors (IOPs) or Servers that are capable of linking your RASTRAC viewer to the vehicle. The IOP can be local to your machine, in which case your base modem is connected to the viewer computer which is viewing the fleet. You may also have a remote IOP or Server on another computer that is supplying the information over a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. To add a selection, double-click on an item in the 'Available choices' list to add it to the 'Your choices for this box' list. To delete a selection, double-click on the 'Your choices for this box' list and the entry will be removed.

Enter the time in minutes and seconds for the vehicle timeout period. Click the up or down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the timeout value for minutes (left side buttons) or seconds (right side buttons) The time is in minutes (for seconds, use 0:dd - e.g. 00:15 is 15 seconds) that the system will wait between retries. This value is used to determine how long it should take to get a response back from the mobile unit. If a response is not received within the specified amount of time, a message will be displayed letting you know that the command sent to the vehicle failed. If this value is set too low, an error message will be displayed and then the vehicle response will be processed (even though an error message was displayed).

Talk Mode: This setting selects which communications mode will be used. If you have multiple IOPs, you can talk to the IOPs in ‘Parallel’, ‘Serial’, or ‘First Available’ mode. To talk to all IOPs at the same time, use the ‘Parallel’ mode. When a command is sent from RASTRAC (e.g. Get Position), it is sent to all IOPs in the list at the same time. To talk to the IOPs one at a time, use the ‘Serial’ mode. When a command is sent from RASTRAC (e.g. Get Position), it is sent to the first IOP in the list. If a response is not received in the specified timeout period, then the command will be sent to the next IOP in the list. This will continue until a response (position update) is received or all IOPs have been tried. To talk to the first available IOP, use the ‘First Available’ mode. The ‘First Available’ talk mode is primarily used for communicating with multiple IOPs using the Hayes AT interface (e.g. a bank of telephone modems). When a command is sent from RASTRAC (e.g. Get Position), it is sent to the first IOP in the list. If the IOP is busy (locked in use) or there is an error, then the command will be sent to the next IOP in the list. This will continue until an IOP is available for use or all IOPs have been tried. If all IOPs are busy, then the command will be queued. If you only have one IOP, it doesn’t matter if you use ‘Parallel’ or ‘Serial’ mode (the default is ‘Parallel’).

Note: You must select at least one IOP and the talk mode for each vehicle you wish to talk to (send commands from RASTRAC to the vehicle – e.g. Get Position). Outgoing messages can only get to the selected vehicle if the IOP is defined in ‘IOP and Server List…’ and the talk mode is selected. All incoming messages from a valid vehicle will automatically be processed even if an IOP and talk mode have not been selected.

The ‘Set to Default’ button will automatically fill in default settings for the vehicle if they are available.

Click the Network Settings... button to add (or change) network settings.

The ‘Apply’ button will apply all settings on this page to the selected vehicles. If a single defined vehicle is selected then the Apply button is disabled and all settings on this page will automatically be saved.