Connecting to ION 8650B Simulator w/ PME or ION Setup

[berickson]

Hello,

We had a PME training and the trainer used an 8650B simulator for some of the training. He was able to connect to this virtual meter using ION Setup and PME. Could I please have some guidance for getting this setup?

All I can remember was him starting the simulator and being able to connect to it using an IP address of 255.255.255.0 or something similar. I'm sure I am missing a step or maybe have the default IP address wrong? Any tips would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Brandon

[Tom_Stevenson]

@Sanjeet_Sahota 

[DanL · Accepted solution]

The Windows simulators use localhost (127.0.0.1)

[Amos_Chirwa]

Good day kindly refer to the solution posted the solution also works in PME, but there seems to be a problem when connecting in Windows Server 2022 with PME, awaiting updates 

Life Is On 🙂

[Jorge_Pasamar]

Hello,

I was able to connect the device using the (127.0.0.1) localhost, but while using multiple simulators (ION7400,PM8000 AND ION8650) I´m running into issues while connecting each device to the PME since I´m not sure how this process works, when I open the simulators and then open the web applications on PME they all connect to one same simulator, even tho I created on the manager console one for each simulator. Does anyone know how can I connect multiple simulators on PME?  Also i was trying to find the historical data of the simulator but I can´t see any historical register data, is it possible to read historical data from a simulator device? Thank you in advance.

[Charles_Murison]

Hello @Jorge_Pasamar ,

Different versions of simulator may have different behavior. By default, simulator will use port 7700 on computer running simulator. Some versions of simulator would increment by 1 each time if port already in use, 7701, 7702, for example. Some simulators could have the ION port defined with argument, simulator.exe -p [port number desired] . In PME, would need to define the port to match the simulator.

Regards,

Charles