Developer Help

Getting Started - Load MediaLB Workspace

After the installation, you will find two new icons on your desktop:
OptoLyzer Suite Viewer is useful only for offline analysis of prerecorded traces whereas OptoLyzer Suite is the full product. Start the software and make sure that the MediaLB Monitor is powered and connected to your PC. The Ready LED on the front panel of the MediaLB Monitor should be red, maybe blinking red.

In the lower right area of the main window of OptoLyzer Suite, we can Load another Workspace. Choose the MediaLB Workspace. Now the MediaLB Monitor should be detected automatically by the software which is indicated by the appearance of a new icon in the main window. At the same time, you can see the LEDs on the MediaLB Monitor changing from red to green, and the three yellow ones indicate the speed grade of your MediaLB bus.

In case that the MediaLB Workspace looks like what is on my screen (see video), it means that the tool has not detected any MediaLB Monitor. You can simply add this interface manually by clicking on the button Add MediaLB USB Device in the main window. Confirm all the default settings in the configuration window that pops up.

Let's go on with some basic configurations of OptoLyzer Suite:
Right-click on the interface icon, go to select Filter, and use the Unfiltered option.
Make sure that the trigger is set to No Trigger.
These two settings will ensure that all MediaLB traffic is captured.

High Level Protocols & Disassembly

To configure advanced settings, click on the toolbox in the main window, select Workspace settings, and go to the Protocols tab. Make sure that MediaLB Transmission is checked. This setting enables the OptoLyzer Suite to combine several low-level data chunks to generate a logical message in human-readable form according to the selected syntax tree.

To configure the disassembly, move to the Syntax tab, select the option XML, and choose your syntax tree for disassembly which might be just an INIC FunctionBlock or a syntax tree for the entire car system. Do the same steps for the secondary syntax tree.

Tool Settings

Some general settings can be found in the main window of OptoLyzer Suite under Toolbox > Tool settings > Folders. Here, you can specify where the recorded MediaLB traces are stored on your PC's hard drive. Click on the lower navigation button and choose a folder.

All the settings we've done are stored in the MediaLB Workspace when you close the OptoLyzer Suite software and are being reloaded when you use the software for the next time.

For more details, watch the video.