Use the Device Selector tab to find available devices and connect to them. Kipling can connect to and control multiple devices. The Refresh Devices button performs a search to find compatible LabJack devices.
The scanning process can take 60+ seconds when searching for devices connected over WiFi and if the device's WiFi connection is week, packets can get dropped and multiple retries may occur. Because of this, you may want to deselect the connection types that are not relevant. LJM can selectively scan for devices connected over USB, Ethernet, and WiFi. If you are having issues getting a device connected over Ethernet/WiFi or trying to debug your network connection issues, the following two Networking App Notes are useful to look at:
Press the green USB/Ethernet/WiFi buttons to connect to devices using that connection type. Select any number of devices in this manner.
After connecting to a device, additional tabs appear. A good first step is to check out the Device Information tab.
After searching for a device, the device connection buttons are sometimes different colors.
The USB, Ethernet, and WiFi device connection buttons can be either green, yellow or red. The colors indicate the following:
During the scanning process and after a user clicks one of the connection type buttons, Kipling uses the LJM_OpenS function call with the parameters listed below to connect to devices.
Device Type | Connection Type | Identifier |
---|---|---|
"T4" or "T7" | "USB" | [device serial number] |
"T4" or "T7" | "Ethernet" | [device IP address] |
"T4" or "T7" | "WiFi" | [device IP address] |
Kipling's Device Selector tab finds T-series connections by using LJM to scan for connections. To scan for network connections, LJM sends a UDP broadcast over the network and sometimes it also sends UDP packets directly to IPs for which it expects T-series connections. However, for some networks, UDP broadcast does not work. For these networks, Kipling may not find network connections by default, but you can use the following methods to fix that:
Requires Kipling 3.1.17 or later.
Direct Connect is essentially a graphical wrapper around LJM_Open. The Device Type, Connection Type, and Identifier text boxes in Kipling's Direct Connect Options correspond directly to the parameters of LJM_Open.
The Identifier parameter can take the following types of Identifiers:
See here for more information on the Identifier parameter.