Playback

GRIT Monitor allows you to view information from a previous GRIT Monitor session that has been stored to a file.

A Playback session is opened from the Devices window. To open a Playback file:

1. From the Devices window, click the Open File button.

   The New Playback dialog box appears.

   

2. Click the Browse button.

   The Open File dialog box appears.

3. Navigate to the folder that contains the playback file and click the playback file to open.

   The playback file selected must have been created by GRIT Monitor. GRIT Monitor does not open play back files created by Manage.

4. Click the Open button.

   The New Playback dialog box appears with the name of the file in the Select File box.

   

5. Click the Start Playback button.

   The GRIT Monitor Dashboard appears and the information from the saved GRIT Monitor session starts to play.

Playback Controls

The controls for viewing a GRIT Monitor session are on the Timeline bar.

Viewing the Log File

The information in the GRIT Monitor session file starts playing when the file is opened.

• The Summary bar shows the status information at the current point in the session file.
• The Dashboard tiles show signal information at the current point in the session file
• The progress bar shows the current point in the file.
• The Date/Time field shows the time the information at the current point in the session file was collected.

To pause playback, click the pause button ().

To restart playback, click the play button ().

To move back 30 seconds in the playback, click the repeat button ().

To replay a playback file, click the replay button ().

The speed at which the file is played back can be changed. To change the playback speed, click the Speed drop menu and select a playback rate.

Events in the Log File

If an event occurred on the receiver while the Playback session was being collected, the event will be shown on the progress bar. Errors are shown as red dots and warnings are shown as amber dots.

To view more information about an event, click on the event in the progress bar. A dialog box appears providing the event message and the time the event occurred.

Events on the progress bar can be shown or hidden. To show the events, set the Show Events option to on (). To hide the events, set the Show Events option to off ().

Show or Hide the Playback Controls

To show the full Playback controls, click the Timeline button.

To hide the Playback controls, click the Timeline button.

Save a Snippet

A snippet is a portion of the log file that is extracted and saved to a separate file. To save a snippet:

1. Click the Create Snippet button.

   The snippet selection tool appears on the progress bar.

   

   The amber box indicates the portion of the log file that will be saved.

2. Use the handles at the end of the snippet tool to adjust how much of the file will be included in the snippet.

3. Click the Save Snippet button.

   The Save Snippet dialog box appears.

4. Navigate to the folder in which the snippet will be saved.

5. Enter a name for the snippet file in the File name box.

6. Click the Save button.

7. To save the file and view the newly created snippet in Playback, click the Yes button. The New Playback dialog box appears. Click the Start Playback button.

   To save the file only, click the No button.