General Setup

1. Turn on your device
2. Connect to the device AP (usually `GDog Setup`)
3. open setup page http://192.168.4.1 or click here
4. Select the AP for your network and enter password, if exists
5. Accept and wait until application appears, make sure you connect to the Internet

If all goes right, application will be ready in a minute (or other for custom devices), if not, restart the device and repeat the setup!
Depending on your application, the access point will be removed automatically or left!

Debug

How do I set factory defaults / restore the device

Device has 2 sets of defaults: Server side and Device side
Server side consists of charts, colors, calibrations, etc, device side consists of connection information and MID number.

Server side factory defaults - open advanced/Defaults find your device and click - Set Defaults. Make sure you refresh your browser afterwards.
Device side - open setup page, System Settings, Chose Default Settings (to keep MID number) or Complete format to create device as new.

Device defaults takes minute or two, reconnect to access point
Depending on your device type, it might take several minutes for device to come online.

Debug

Device does not find my wifi network

First you make sure the router is close enough.
Device should be compatible with all standard 2.4Ghz networks, however check wether your wifi name does not contains some illegal chars, password is related to standard (if set) and IPv4 is available. Make sure broadcast network SSID is enabled on router.


WiFi network is found, but device does not come online

There are several possible reasons, why device is offline

• Your device might be turned off. Make sure device is running. Restart might help.
• Your device might have lost connection to the Wifi, check or restart your router.
• Make sure you have an Internet connection at the Access Point you have provided to the device.
• Your browser might be offline. Make sure this device has an Internet connection.
• Server might be unaccessable from your network. Make sure you can refresh this page!

If the device lost connection for short time, the data will be sinchronized once connection restores.
After device reset, to start collecting data, the device must have an Internet connection for few seconds to sinchronize clock!
If problem still occurs, you might need to setup the device again.

Device is online, but data is missing

Please wait while some data is collected, if still some periods are missing, probably your Internet connection to the device is so weak, device is unable to work normal mode.

Device parametres

Notice: Some of the parametres might be different if specified on your users manual


• Device offline storage: About 20 days
• Device online storage: Unlimited, could be reduced to 5 years.
• Reaction time: depending on input signals from 1 to 60 seconds. Once input detects major changes, time is reduced.
• Signal storage frequency: 1 minute safe. Depending on data changes, will be more frequent.
• Storage signal curve: Minute average, Instant, Minute Maximum Peak, Minute Minimum Peak.
• Maximum signal resolution: (1:4096) about 0.025% of scale (8kW sensor will store less than 2W changes).
• Sensors per device: up to 8

Device working principles

Device boots up in Access Point mode for 2 minutes, once the server responds.
In less than a minute, device should come online, if your network parametres are correct.
After boot up device is always gathering server time. Once time is set, device starts to store and synchronize data. Device will not start collecting data until time is set.
When device is online, local database is not used, if device goes offline, device is storing data on local database. Storage amount is about 20 days, but it depends on your hardware, check your hardware datasheet for details.

How to view the data

There are 2 types of graphs (charts) available - real time and historical.
Real time charts displays the current moment and are restored in a few seconds, historical charts usually updates a little slower, depending on the period you are watching.
Chars are available on small and full screen regime. Some real time charts are not openable, just there is no reason for it.
Full screen charts can be dragged unlimited to the right and to the left. If "Empty" message appears - there is no data available at the moment.
You can change data period above the chart. When dragging, data period is not affected and will be restored once you close the chart
Most of the charts tou can save the chart as picture or as data . Data is displayed as table (can be copied to other software) and csv file will be downloaded for export.
You can share the data to other devices by using QR code bellow the application. Click on the QR code to make it higher contrast.

Icon descriptions

	Toggle full screen mode.
	Synchronizing data from the device. Icon appears or is blinking when device was offline and some data has not been synchronized. Charts will change once upload is finished.
	Add new charts, remove charts, customize chart view. New chart will be added random type. Change it on chart menu. You are provided with a preview window to see wether chart is the one you like. For history charts, add default times (local hours from-to) and/or default history days (how long period ago from now you want to see by default). Empty values to set chart defaults. Some charts require specific sensor, some allows you to overview all. Click main menu again, when done. Notice, customized values are saved, but editing periods from overview does not save for future use.
	General settings for your device.
	Customize how sensors appear on charts. You can change sensor title, color, min and max values displayed on chart. When reaching values out of boundaries, chart will display the numeric value as it is, but the graph will show either minimum or maximum. Also you will see data reading type (average per minute, instant, peak maximum or peak minimum) depending on your device When working in the advanced mode, notice you can calibrate device (adjusting values for the conditions you have), change units, measuring method, decimal format or rounding values. When changing these values, be aware device can stop working as you want it and data can be damaged. Do not change them if you are not sure what you are doing!
	Customize how outputs the device is serving. You can change output Title, color (for chart), sensor the output is relating to and limits - when to turn specific output on and when to turn it off. (editable only on advanced mode) Output is turned on when sensor reaches certain value (Enable if - MIN) and turned off when sensor reaches value (Enable if - MAX). For example, to turn on cooler, if temperature is more than 25 degrees, enter "Temperature" as sensor, Min - 25, Max - 999 (never reaches). To signal with led that CO2 is low, sensor "Air Quality", Min - 0, Max - 700. Color is required if you want to show specific color on output charts. Title will not affect operation of the output. On advanced mode you can change channels for the output. Do not change them unless you understand it well.
	Enables more advanced options, if you are advanced user and you want more customization. Notice, when using advanced mode some changes might cause data damage or device unexpected functioning. If you are ready for more customization, make sure you save all important charts first, you remember previous values and go for it! Once you click Advanced, notification will appear and menu will contain more features. Some existing features will display different parametres.
Advanced	Notification that you are using advanced mode. Click to exit.
	Option available on advanced mode. This allows you to restore defaults for your device family. Device family consists of one or more devices supported by your hardware. Usually simplified version will be set up by default and once you understand the device, you can set the device for more input/output channels. Notice, by changing device type, historical data might be damaged or deleted.
	Available on advanced mode. This allows you to create user login with email address and password. You can add more devices to your user. First device can not be removed! Add more devices by entering MID number in table and click ADD. Next line you can add users with passwords, if you are supervisor who wants to overview your subusers. You must know the password. If users email or password is not correct, the devices will not be listed. To open page with login parametres, click OPEN LOGIN and application will appear in a new tab, requesting login. If only one device is present, application will open the only available device.

Customize your device

The UI is customizable with your favorite chars.
Make sure you spend some time selecting the best chars from chart menu, remove the charts that doesn`t fit your needs, add as many as you like. Select the colors, sensor ranges and chart ranges as you like. If your device is getting too slow, remove some charts, shorten data amounts and periods.
On the chart customization menu, bellow each preview there are specific chart display options, they are a little different for each chart type.
If you have more GDog devices, please merge them at signle user to have better experience.


Advanced features

Once configuration from access point is opened, device keeps access point available until 5 minutes after restart. Once configuration is set, restart is required to use your desired wifi network.
When device is online, local database is not used, if device goes offline, device is storing data on local database. Storage amount is about 20 days, but it depends on your hardware, check your hardware datasheet for details.
When significant signal changes occur, data posting is triggered. Change amount can be adjusted.
When user opens the application, data posting rate is upgraded.
Usual data sending rate is less than a minute.
Hardware collects and sends following information - 7 analog channel values, 12 digital output values. Collected information can be changed from user interface.
Hardware output works online and offline. All calculations related to output are made hardware to ensure full working mode on any case.
For advanced device customization, console application can be used, when device is in access point mode.
Console mode allows you some of following:

• Changing server, where application is located
• Changing data triggers
• Align output/input ports
• Debug device
• Hardware restart
• format internal flash memory