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MasterPC Setup

Setup register values

  • Hold Windows Button and press R on the keyboard
  • Type regedit and press enter
    Regedit run
  • In regedit open Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> WOW6432Node -> Muehlbauer -> MBMMS

Set the values to the following:

Register Values 

FileFilter      = m2ksys.ini;hardware.ini;params.ini;defaults.ini;CcSystemTop.exe;startup.bat;*.xml;StartUp.sh;startapp.sh;CALPR_INSPECTION_BOS;OpcUaClientConfig.ini; 
MachineType1    = DS4

The Master PC should be restarted now.

Copy machine files from a working setup

  • There should be a MBGUI folder on the D: drive of the PC that's being setup. Change It's name to something else.

Example

--MBGUI

  • From the PC with the working setup copy D:/Machine and D:/MBGUI to the same place on the other machine.

Setup IP Address for MB Split Screen

  • Go to Control Panel -> "View network status and tasks" (Under Network and Internet) -> Change Adapter Settings
  • Rightclick the network called "Machine" -> Properties
  • Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
  • Click Properties -> Advanced -> Add
  • Set 192.168.104.65 as IP address and 255.255.255.0 as Subnet Mask
  • The result should look like this:
    The result

Configure hardware.ini and M2kSys.ini files

Note

if the attributes are missing, you can just create them, the order doesn't matter, just make sure Its in the right [Category] just make sure, if making them, that they aren't there within the category already

  • open hardware.ini file and set the following attributes:
[Main]
  MachineName           = F1.P4.PY.XRC@@ (@@ stands for the number of the machine, different for each one)
  TelemetryPrefixName   = F1.P4.PY.XRC@@ 
...
  • open M2kSys.ini file and set the following attributes: 
...
[MachineManagerService]
  RemoteAddress     = 192.168.211.2 
...

[GuiService]
  MesIfcPackMLNodeNameReplaceAfter  = F1.P4.PY.XRC@@
  MesIfcPackMLMetadataPLCFBS = F1.P4.PY.XRC@@.LC1.UCA1.KEB1
...
[HostAlias_x]
  HostIpAddress     = 192.168.211.2

Setup LauncherUI

  • In the taskbar on the right, rightclick the LauncherUI Icon and select "Configure Launchlist"

LauncherUI

  • Add 2 New Items with the type "Application"

LauncherUI new item

  • Set their file paths to the executables of SplitScreen and GUI (Usually D:\SplitScreen\SplitScreen.exe and D:\MBGUI\MBGUI.exe) and turn their "Enable" column ON

LauncherUI filePaths