How does the WattPlot Remote program work?
In a typical (Local) WattPlot installation, the Monitor program runs on the computer that the serial cable from the MATE is plugged into. In a Remote installation, it is the Remote program that runs on the computer connected to the MATE. The Remote program handles all the serial port data communication with the Mate, and writes the performance data out to a series of ten data files (Remote_0.dat, Remote_1.dat, … , Remote_9.dat). Once all ten files have been written, it returns to the first and cycles through them again, replacing the contents with the latest data. You specify the location of these ten data files, so they can exist on a network or intranet server, accessible in a wide variety of ways. By telling the Monitor program, running on a different computer, where to find these ten data files, the data may be transferred from the MATE to a WattPlot Monitor located anywhere. As of WattPlot version 3.5.2, used remote data files are no longer deleted, so that multiple Monitor prog
