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Gateway Bench

A page where you name an MQTT broker and a Qundis gateway, and watch what the gateway hears. Every meter it hears is listed as it arrives, with its readings where they can be read. You can also ask the gateway for a readout.

A sign-in is not needed: you bring the broker's own username and password. An account gives you a few things more, and is described under Signing in.

Use it when you are commissioning a gateway, or when a building's readings look wrong and you want to see the radio side: which meters the gateway really hears, which of them want a key, and whether their telegrams arrive intact.

It is not the system that collects a building's readings. It stores nothing and sends nothing on. It decodes with the same decoder that system uses, so the two cannot disagree about a telegram.

What is in this manual

  • Signing in and connecting: the account you may have, the form that names a broker and a gateway, and the three tabs.
  • What you see: the gateway's card, the meters it hears and their readings.
  • Asking a gateway: a readout, a restart, a change of schedule, and what an administrator may ask.
  • Sessions: exporting and sharing a session, coming back to one, and what the bench refuses.
  • Loggers: readouts on a schedule with no page open, what is kept, and delivery by email, FTP or SFTP.
  • Accounts, presets and limits: the Users and Presets tabs, and the bench's limits.

Words used in this manual

  • A gateway is a Qundis QGW: a battery box that listens for wireless M-Bus telegrams and sends them on to a broker over MQTT.
  • A readout is a period the gateway spends listening, 5 to 60 minutes. A gateway that is not in a readout hears nothing.
  • A session is you watching one gateway, several, or a whole broker: one broker connection that the bench holds for you, and everything heard since.
  • A listed meter is one whose serial number you typed in Meters to expect when you connected. The bench shows which of them it has heard.
  • An assignment is the gateways an administrator gave to one contractor on one broker, with the meters they may read. See Signing in.