In order to use your sensor channels with real hardware, you must patch your channels to a Sensor Master.
First you must add a Sensor Master to your devices (see: Adding boxes)
There are two ways you can patch channels:
Channel View
- In Setup-->Channels, select the sensor channel you want to patch
- At the bottom you will see Patching
- Select the dropdown to choose from channels of any Sensor Masters you have added
- You can choose empty channels or overwrite filled ones
- You can search for channel names using the search bar
- Once patched you can unpatch from here
Ports View
- Devices-->Choose a Sensor Master-->Ports (ethernet icon)
- You will see a list of the 12 channel slots
- The dot on the right show if anything is patched to the slot. WHITE for patched. GREY for empty
- Click on a slot to see the channel associated with it
- Click on channel to see a dropdown of all suitable sensor channels that can be patched
- Click one of these channels in the dropdown to patch it to that channel on the port
- you can re-patch channels that are already patched elsewhere (it will tell you what port it is already patched to)
- You can search for channel names using the search bar
- Once patched you can unpatch from here using 'disconnect channel'
If you need help connecting sensors to your master see: Connecting sensors to the Sensor Master