Periscope Prerequisites
- Periscope must run on a Niagara4 station, version 4.0 or higher. It is recommended that Periscope run on a Niagara Web Supervisor or SoftJACE due to increased storage capacity and speed but it can also run on any Niagara4 compatible JACE.
- Any station running Periscope must have at least 6MB available.
- Periscope is a web application and requires a modern browser. Officially supported browsers include IE10+ as well as the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.
Periscope will soon support SkySpark in addition to Niagara4.
Installing Periscope
Saving and stopping your station:
- Open your Platform and access the Application Director
- Save your running station (Save Bog)
- Stop the station (Stop)
* The menu shown is located on the right side of the Application Director window
• Close Workbench
Installing Periscope JAR file
- Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your current build of Niagara
- Place the periscope.jar file in the modules folder under your Niagara build
- Place your Periscope license file in the licenses folder under your Niagara build
Installing License File
The license file provided is not a normal Niagara license and needs to be installed separately. The license needs to be installed in:
- {STATION_HOME}/shared/periscope
For example, on my local machine this is: C:\Niagara\Niagara-4.2.36.20\stations\demo\shared\periscope.
The "periscope" folder should be created if it does not already exist in your station shared folder.
Adding the Periscope Service in Niagara4
- Open Workbench, reopen your Platform and access the Application Director
- Start the station
- Open the periscope palette
- Drag and drop the PeriscopeService from the pallete into your station's Services
- After which, Periscope installation will be complete and you may open Periscope by going to http:/(IP address of the Web Supervisor/JACE)/periscope
User Setup
Important Notes:
• If your dashboard locks up, try refreshing the page.
• You can delete a user’s dashboard by deleting the folder station:\files\Periscope\users\[username]
• techsupport@activelogix.com for support questions