Chapter 6_Optional EMI Equipment Interface Installation

The EMI Equipment Interface provides the interface with scale systems, flow meters and grain testers. The EMI Equipment Interface is a separate installation file. The file is located at the CINCH download location in the Optional folder. This chapter describes the optional installation.
EMI Equipment Interface Installation

1. If running a previous version of EMI Equipment Interface, remove the program using Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs.

EMI Equipment Interface should be re-installed with each new CINCH or CINCH Remote Scale version.

EMI Equipment Interface Installation needs to be run on the machine running the Dynamics Client.

1. Launch the EMIEquipmentInterfaceSetup18.0.msi.

2. Click Next on the Welcome to the EMI Equipment Interface 18.0 Setup Wizard.

3. Select the Installation Folder

   1. Select the installation folder. The default location is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\GP\.

      1. When installing with CINCH Remote Scale the default location is (C:\Program Files\Cinch Scale).

   2. Select Next

4. Select Next to Confirm Installation

5. Select Close when Installation is Complete

6. If this is a new EMI Equipment Interface Installation refer to CINCH Grain Software System Manual for additional setup.

   1. The Interface Setup chapter covers Scale Maintenance and Grain Tester Maintenance.

   2. The Sales/Outbound Setup chapter covers the Flow Meter Maintenance.

7. Open the Grain Tester Interface (Start Menu> Programs> EMI Grain Tester Interface> Grain Tester Interface)

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   1. The Server Name field contains the list of local SQL servers for user selection.

   2. The User Name field is the user's Cinch User login name.

   3. The Password field is the user's Cinch Password.

   4. The Company Name field contains a list of the Cinch companies on the selected server.

   5. The Grain Tester 1 field contains a list of the Pre-Post and Live Mode Grain testers. The lists of Pre-Post and Live testers come from setup done in Grain Tester Maintenance.

   6. The Grain Tester 2 field contains a list of the Pre-Post and Live Mode Grain Testers. The lists of Pre-Post and Live testers come from setup done in Grain Tester Maintenance.

   7. The 'Show popup notification when data is received' checkbox, when checked, will allow a balloon window to display received results coming from the Pre-Post and Live Testers.

   8. The 'Warn if Grain Tester time does not match system time' checkbox, when checked, will direct the system to display a warning when the tester time and system time differ more than 30 minutes.

   9. The 'Launch data collection application when Windows starts' checkbox, when checked, will launch the Grain Tester Interface application automatically.

   10. The 'Save Dynamics login information' checkbox, when checked, will save the user login information encrypting the password.

   11. The 'Run Grain Tester 2' checkbox, when checked, will enable the second tester for dual tester operation. This only needs to be launched once to run two testers in Pre-Post and Live mode.

   12. The Application log file:

       1. The <EMIGrainTester_windowsusername.log> file will reside in the user's TEMP folder.

       2. Archiving the log file when it reaches 1MB in size will be done with the file <ArchiveEMIGrainTester_windowsusername.log> overwriting an existing archive log file.

When running through a RDP connection, the Local Resources, Local Devices setting Serial Ports must be selected.

The Grain Tester Settings window must be running and one of the Grain Testers selected must be a Live tester in order for the Live mode to work.

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   1. Upon receiving results from the tester, if Cinch is not yet open a warning message is displayed warning the user Live mode is unable to connect to Cinch.

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      1. The results will be available to be selected in the Grain Sample Lookup if no destination window is found.

   2. Upon receiving results from the tester, if there are multiple windows open with a matching item, a warning message is displayed prompting the user to select results manually for to the desired window.

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      1. The results will be available to be selected in the Grain Sample Lookup if multiple windows are open that have live mode setup.

   2. Upon receiving results from the tester, if Cinch is open but there isn't a Live mode capable window opened or a Grain Tester has not been selected within the Purchases/Inbound User Setup window's Tester 1 or Test 2 fields for the user, a warning message is displayed prompting the user that no destination window was found.

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      1. The results will still import and be available to be selected in the Grain Sample Lookup if no destination window is found.

VB COM Scale Interface Installation

VB Com scale objects are no longer supported.