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Neware Software

Software Operation

Software Relationship

Benefited from distributed architecture, BTS provides your most flexibility and data utility. BTS Client is a free software package on application tier, while some other custom solutions are provided on charge basis.

battery cycler-software relationship

Key Files and Folders Description

1) Folders generated after BTS software installation completed are listed as below. If your computer functions only as BTS Client or BTS Server, there will only one such folder under NEWARE directory.

battery cycler-Folder-Hierarchy-and-Description

 

2) Meanwhile, you should still pay attention to below files:


  • BTS.ini in BTSClient folder. This file specifies the configuration parameters of the client, like BTS servers connected to, step color, status color and etc.

  • my.ini in BTSServer folder. This file is generated by MySQL, if you are not familiar with MySQL, maintain it unchanged.

  • BtsServer.ini in \Neware\BTSServer\bin folder. This file specifies the configuration parameters of the server.

  • ibdata1 in \NEWARE\BTSServer\data folder. This is the data file which MySQL manages, storing all the test data.

Files and Folder Operation

Above presentation is only for better understanding of our software. We highly suggest that these files or folders are maintained unchanged except you are guided to do so.

 

BTSClient Operation

BTSClient Overview
1) BTS Client is a traditional Windows program, has below 6 main content blocks.

ID Name Description
1 Device List Devices and their connection status.
Device management – Information inquiry, embedded software update,
device configuration.
2 Current / History Tab Search any history data on BTS server(s) under Search tab, and list all history
data and manage them under History tab.
3 Brief View Settings Set background color highlight different channel states and adjust what
information to be viewed.
4 Auxiliary Information List all the barcodes input, press machine monitor and control
5 Main Content Main Content
6 View Picker and other
functions
Three views provided and two other functions – Capacity grading and Battery
Match.

 

 neware battery cycler-BTS-Client-Overview

                                                                                                                   BTS-Client-Overview

Log for Problem Shooting

Under some unexpected occasions, you may experience a problem which is requiring further information for shooting. Log files are such kind of information and you may be required to submit these files. Navigate to Package Log under Help on menu bar. This will compact all the files in BTS Client\logData folder.

User Management

1) BTSClient provides you multi roles to operate this client. You may specify users in different User Groups to allocate different accessing rights to the BTSClient. To access User Management, you should log as an administrator user. For non-administrator users, you can only modify your password.
2) Now, after you logged as administrator, you can access User Management by clicking User Management under User on the Menu Bar.

neware battery cycler-User-Management

                                           User-Management

 

3) You can add and delete a user group, and also allocate accessing rights to a selected group. And in User section, you can add users to a selected group.

Disable User Management Module
1) If there is nobody else to use this software or you do not need user management module and you are tired of entering user name and password. You can edit the BTS.ini by changing [CLIENTMODE] MODE=2 to [CLIENTMODE] MODE=1.

View Settings 

1) Basically, 3 views are provided for your selection. But Brief View is the most one we use because List View and Step View just provide testing data without permitting you starting a test and performing other settings.

neware battery cycler-Channel-Brief-View 

                                                                     Channel-Brief-View

2) You can set different highlight colors for different channel states. Click the color block before the state label will prompt a color picker for you to choose. Click the color block before Default will reset all the highlight colors to default.
3) In general, below channel information and real time data shown for you.

neware battery cycler-Channel-Information

                                                         Channel-Information

4) Click will guide you to some other data views.
5) You can also set colors to indicated different step type. Navigate to Set Step Color under Setting menu on the menu bar. Clicking the button with step name will prompt color picker for your selection.

 neware battery cycler step-color-setting

                                                           step-color-setting

You will see the result when you launch Step Editor for a new test or Channel Information to view the test schedule.

neware battery cycler step-color-view

                                                                        step-color-view

6) Right click in the main content area. There will be Unit Setting command enables you set the units of the testing data to be presented.

neware battery cycler unit-setting-1       neware battery cycler unit-setting-2

                                        unit-setting

 

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