Dikablis Control Center

Control Center

Control Center (called D-Lab Control in the reference manual) controls data acquisition. This program allows you to control the Recorder program based on testing procedures preconfigured in the D-Lab program. Furthermore, you can use Control Center on a computer other than the Dikablis laptop in order to control starting and stopping of recordingover a local network (ethernet) connection.

- used to stream data to another computer? configure which events get sent to network?

In order to control the Dikablis laptop's Recorder program on a second computer with an ethernet cable:

1. Physically connect the ethernet cable
2. Determine the local area IP address of the dikablis computer:
   1. Go to start, type in "cmd", and a command prompt will open
   2. Type "ipconfig /all"
   3. Look under Ethernet Adapter Local area connection, next to IPv4 address
3. Open Recorder on the dikablis laptop
4. Open Control Center on the second computer
5. Under outgoing connection settings, type in the IP address of the dikablis comptuter, and use port "2001"
6. Click on "Connect"

The red circle next to Outgoing connection settings should turn green, and you should be able to start and stop recording by pressing the corresponding buttons at the bottom of Control Center.

Note: Make sure the Recorder program on the Dikablis laptop is opened, as network communication occurs through this program.