Pre-loading animal lifetime information or alerts to the stick
reader, prior to scanning
Animal lifetime information or alerts can be transferred from the PC to the stick
reader prior to scanning, using the Data Link PC software.
Animal lifetime information
If animal lifetime information is transferred, when an animal's EID tag is scanned,
other information about the animal will be displayed. For example, you can transfer
a file containing EID and VID pairs. During scanning, when an EID tag is scanned,
the corresponding VID number will be displayed automatically.
For details about animal lifetime information refer to the
Transferring animal lifetime information to the XRS2 Stick Reader
See section 10
Alerts
If alerts information is transferred, when an animal's EID tag is scanned, an alert
will be issued. For example, you may want to receive an alert to cull a particular
animal from the herd.
To transfer animal lifetime information or alerts from the PC to the stick reader:
1. Connect the stick reader to a PC using the cable supplied.
2. Launch Data Link on your PC.
3. Click
, select Animal Lifetime Information or Alerts file and follow the
prompts.
The PC file containing animal lifetime information can be in .csv, .xls,
.xlsx or .txt format, but it must be formatted in a certain way.
For details about setting up alerts refer to the
Alerts on the XRS2 Stick Reader
information
10
- Getting other detailed information
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Setup Guide
- Getting other detailed
. See section 10
Setup Guide -
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Setting up
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