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Disclaimer The goal is to use ctrlX CORE or a ctrlX OS installation in order to store and monitor High Frequency Signals for Condition Monitoring. This topic has already been covered here. So what is the difference? This solution is using the Telegraf app and not Node-RED and is a configuration also suitable for people who don't know how to program and it is easily reproducible. On the other hand it is less flexible.  Oversample Telegraf app  Requirements ctrlX CORE - X3 or X7 or a ctrlX OS installation version 2.6 and above. InfluxDB and Telegraf apps set and running. Done with version 2.6. Some RT data to trace. Setup Telegraf app First of all we have to check that the node we want to trace are Realtime Data like the data present in  plc/app/Application/realtime_data/.. fieldbuses/ethercat/master/instances/ethercatmaster/realtime_data/.. If some calculation should be done before the upload, there is then the need to take the data in a Ethercat Synchronous task in the PLC app (or a self made RT app but PLC is definitely easier) and then store it in a realtime PLC data location. Below you can see my configuration, I removed all the comments to fit it in the page. Other than the standard configuration parameters we have the following 3 parameters to tune: Sampling interval: setting this to 0 is activating the function. lossless_rate_limit: setting to 1 i am uploading all the data, setting to 10 i upload a value any 10 values queue_size: how big should the buffer i want to upload?  Telegraf Lossless subscription   ... View more

This How-to refers to the procedure necessary to factory reset a ctrlX CORE X7. The official procedure is explained in this DOCU. Prerequisites and equipment Having a ctrlX CORE X7 to be restored. An empty USB-stick (max 32 GB). Procedure Step 1: Partition the USB stick as GPT and format it as FAT32 on a Windows system GPT (GUID Partition Table) is used in various computing environments where modern partitioning methods and support for larger storage devices are required. It is the common approach to partition the storage devices in systems using UEFI firmware, such as ctrlX CORE X7. The procedure here described has been taken from the official Windows documentation here.  We plug in the device and start the Command Promp (CMD) in our Windows system as administrator. We need to proceeded with the following commands: #start diskpart diskpart #list disk list disk #select the disk corresponding to the USB-Stick (our case disk 1) select disk 1 #wipe it out clean #convert to GPT convert gpt Here is the output of the commands executed: Commands to clean a device and set it as GPT Now we have to create the FAT32 partition. Start the windows partition manager windows partition manager ("Create and format hard disk patitions") Use the official Windows tool Create new volume Create a new volume Use FAT32 as filesystem (Windows allows this only for disks smaller than 32GB) Use FAT32 Step 2:  Copy the files to the USB-stick and restore Now we have to Download the files from the collaboration room Collaboration room image, the version is just indicative Copy them inside the USB stick USB stick content Insert the stick directly or with an adapter into the XF01C port X7 port Restore Reboot (plug out, wait, plug in) Only necessary if BIOS Release CTL6R12 or earlier is installed on  the ctrlX CORE X7. Because of a known bug in the BIOS only USB 2.0 sticks works but they are not detected automatically as a boot device. As a workaround: connect a keyboard to the ctrlX CORE press F7 (BIOS Boot Menu) during the boot → BIOS password dialog will open it is not necessary to enter the BIOS password !!! press CTRL + ALT + delete to reboot the ctrlX CORE X7 now the image update progress should start automatically from the USB stick ... View more