The page opened from this browser's offline copy, but its stylesheet and
scripts could not be fetched — which almost always means the
DANA MINI-SIS server is not running.
Start DANA MINI-SIS on the server PC, then reload this page
(Ctrl+F5).
Recording is unaffected by this screen. If the server is running,
it is logging; this window is only a view onto it.
DANA MINI-SIS
Ships Information System
Small name, big haul
Designed by Christian, tekniker · 08/2026
Master code
The server is restarting — back in a moment
This screen reconnects on its own — you do not have to do anything, and
you should not reload the page. Anything you press meanwhile is kept
with the time you pressed it.
⚠ No connection to the server
()reconnecting automatically…
A running station is not lost. It lives on the server, and start/stop
you press here is remembered with the time you pressed it and sent the moment
the link is back. Nothing to write down. But if the server PC itself is off, nothing is being recorded while it
is down — this screen only shows the recording, it does not do it. Get that PC
running again; it picks the station back up by itself.
DANA MINI-SISDesigned by Christian, tekniker · 08/2026MASTER
◯App & offline mode: OFFOptional — not a fault, and not needed on
the server PC. On a bridge or lab screen it lets MINI-SIS open as its own
app and keep showing the last data if the server restarts briefly. It
stays OFF until you run "Installer MINI-SIS som app.bat" once on that PC
(the ship's address is plain http, so the browser needs that step).
Next station
Counted automatically. Change it only if the paper says otherwise.
No station active
Recording
#——
00:00:00
elapsed
← → switches
Stations in this cruise
⟵ EARLIER CRUISE
Activity No.
ID
Gear code
Haul No.
Operator
Start (UTC)
Stop (UTC)
Duration
Successful
Comment
Attention
Instrument screens
320 px100 %
No instrument screens set up yet.
Master adds them under the gear menu, Instrument screens — the
address is the instrument PC's IP, as shown in its TightVNC server.
Active cruise
—
—m
Total depth—
connecting … trying again every few seconds
No instrument screens set up yet.
Add them under ⚙ → Instrument screens
connecting … trying again every few seconds
No instrument screens set up yet.
Add them under ⚙ → Instrument screens
Cruises
Active
Name
Leader
Start
Stop
Setup
Set once and rarely touched. Each opens in a popup, so the page stays short.
New cruise
Choose date
Choose date
A new cruise becomes the active one. New stations are tagged to it.
Gear codes
Add, edit or remove the gear codes you can start a station with.
The description is a note for the crew (shown in the picker).
🎣
Uses haul numbers — tick this for net gear (trawl, MIK, Multinet).
When you start such a station, the system fills in the next
haul number for you automatically, counting up on its own like the
activity number. You can still change it. Leave it off for CTD, grabs and
anything else that has no haul.
Haul data fields
The values entered on the bridge when a fishing station is stopped
(the card by the winch panel). Turn a field off when its sensor is out of service —
old stations keep their data. Auto pre-fills the field from the measured average.
Required before starting a station
Ticked fields must be filled in before START STATION works.
These are facts you can't add back later — so the server enforces it too, not
just the button.
WinCollect 2.0
original .dat format · missing = XXXXSIMULATED
view only
Conditions on deck
🌬—Bft
no wind data
Position & navigation
CURRENT LOG: OFF
Latitude
—
Longitude
—
Speed kn
—
Course °
—
Bottom depth m
—
GPS time UTC
—
Sensor dropouts
Written to data\events\, separate from the raw
data and never rotated away. Each instrument has its own alarm delay
(Alarm after under Data & Instruments), so a short gap is not a dropout.
Port availability
Opens each source for a few seconds and reports what came back.
It tells apart the two things that feel identical on board: a channel somebody
else already holds, and a channel that is free but whose instrument is switched
off. Checking briefly occupies a slot itself, so it runs one port at a
time — never in parallel.
Instruments
Shared with the server — anything defined in the server window
appears here automatically, and vice versa. Use Test to listen on a port for a few
seconds and see the actual decoded data.
Logging
–
Instruments online
–
Warnings
0
Mirror (shared drive)
–
Disk free
–
Instrument status
ONLINE means data arrived within the last few seconds. It does not prove the
data is correct — use Test above to check the actual content.
Instrument
Status
Last data (UTC)
Live data
Errors & warnings
Interface version (the screens)
The interface can update itself from the internet, so nobody has to copy
files onto the ship. The logging is never interrupted — and with no internet the
system simply keeps running the version it has.
Server version (the logging PC)
The server program itself can fetch a new version and put it
ready. It is not installed while running — it swaps in on the next
restart, keeps a backup, and rolls back on its own if the new one will not start.
The logging is never touched.
Data storage
Data folder: …
Only change this if you are opening the interface from another PC
and need to point it at the server. It affects this browser only — it
does not move anything on the server. Get it wrong and this screen goes blank;
the way back is the Backend server field on the login screen.
Files written before the cruise header existed only say which
instrument they came from. This fills in cruise, crew and dates —
data lines are never touched. The button only looks; it shows you the
full list and explains itself before anything is written.
The path is on the server PC, not on the machine you are sitting at.
Browse walks that PC's folders, so you never have to guess a path.
Existing recordings are not moved: logging simply continues in the new folder,
and the old one stays exactly as it is. Point it at a folder that already holds
DANA MINI-SIS data and the cruises and stations there come back.
These buttons open Windows Explorer on the server PC (where the logging runs).
0 = only split per day. Otherwise a new part file is started at this size.
The sounder measures from itself ($SDDBT =
depth below transducer). This is added on top to give the total depth
to the surface — shown in Position & navigation, on the
echosounder card, and stored as the station's start depth.
The .dat files keep the raw sounder reading, so the
old format is untouched. 0 = add nothing.
Station Rebuilder — temporary home
Station Rebuilder
Rebuild stations from a raw Scanmar recording — for example a long
PuTTY log from a trip where the hauls were only written down on paper. Load the file,
type in the stations from your notes, and the data for each haul is pulled out with the
same charts and extracts as a live station.
Suggested hauls
found by looking at when the sensors were actually transmitting
Likely
Start (UTC)
Stop (UTC)
Duration
Samples
Sensors
Stations from the paper notes
Everything is kept, so a mistyped time can always be corrected later.
The pencil shows a station has been edited — hover it to see what changed.
Activity No.
Gear code
Operator
Start (UTC)
Stop (UTC)
Notes
Add station manually MANUAL
For activities written down by hand before the system was logging.
There is no recorded data behind these — only what you type — so they are
always marked MANUAL and can never be mistaken for a logged station.
Nothing is renumbered: the list is sorted by activity number, so a station
typed in as #7 lands between #6 and #8 on its own. It gets a short highlight
where it landed.
Scan for recorded data
Export stations
One row per station. Every export carries the cruise details in
its header — leader, technician, captain, dates — so a file that turns up
on a backup drive in five years can still say where it came from.
Stop station
Edit station
⚑ Position correction (GPS)
If the recorded GPS was wrong (e.g. spoofed), type the
correct position. The recorded fix is never overwritten — both are kept.
Leave blank to keep the recorded one. Format:
56 36.1 N, 56°36.1'N or decimal 56.601.
Start — recorded: —
Stop — recorded: —
Gear code
Pick the gear for this station. Arrow keys and Enter
work too, and typing a letter jumps to it.
Not in the list? Add a new type
It is saved to the list, so it is there next time too.
Changelog
Station comment
Instrument screens
View only. MINI-SIS never sends mouse or keyboard
to an instrument — there is no code for it. Set the TightVNC server on
the instrument to view-only as well, and it is enforced at both ends.
Filter by gear code
Only the gear actually used on this cruise is listed.
The filter also decides what goes in the CSV export.
Remove stations from the list
Nothing is deleted. The station stays on the
server PC with all its data — this only takes it off the list on screen.
You can bring it back at any time, and it keeps its activity number.
Sort the list by
Pick a column. Choosing the one already in use turns
the order around. You can also click the headings in the table.
Who is on watch?
The choice stays until someone changes it — you do not
have to pick it again for every station.
Add a person
Saved to the list, so it is there next watch too.
System check
Everything here is read-only — the check never changes a
setting. If something is wrong, press Copy for support and paste
the text into a message; it contains what failed and what to try.
Are you sure?
Add cruise details to old files
Nothing is written until you say so
What this does. Every data file starts with a few comment
lines saying where it came from. Files written before DANA MINI-SIS knew
about cruises only name the instrument — so years later there is no
way to tell which cruise, which crew or which dates they belong to.
This writes that block into the top of those files.
What it does not do. Not a single measurement is touched —
only comment lines above the data. Files that already carry the block
are skipped, so running it twice changes nothing. A file whose cruise
cannot be determined with certainty is left alone: guessing on
research data is worse than leaving it blank.
Station
Station report
Choose what to include. The header — number, type,
operator and cruise — is always there.
Where is the server?
DANA MINI-SIS runs on one PC on board — the one wired to the
instruments. This screen is just a window onto it, so it needs that PC's
address.
On the server PC itself:localhost:8000
From any other PC on board: that PC's address, shown in big
letters on the DANA MINI-SIS server window — for example
10.197.54.76:8000
If nothing connects, the usual reason is that the
server is not running — not that this address is wrong.
Choose folder on the server PC
Download data
You get a ZIP with one folder per station — the raw
instrument files, the station details, the cruise info and a MANIFEST that
explains everything (English + Danish). Pick which stations below.
Every station in the chosen cruise.
Tick the gear codes and/or haul numbers you want from the
active cruise. Only the matching stations go in the ZIP.
Gear code (type)
Haul number
Nothing selected — the whole cruise will be included.
Everything that started (stations) or was recorded (24/7 logs)
between these dates — across all cruises, no matter what dates the cruise
was set up with.
Delete cruise?
This cannot be undone. The recorded files stay on
disk, but the cruise and its station list are removed from DANA MINI-SIS.
Edit cruise
Choose date
Choose date
Cruise history
Activity No.
ID
Gear code
Haul No.
Operator
Start (UTC)
Stop (UTC)
Duration
Successful
Comment
Attention
Today's program
The bridge writes the day's plan — approximate time, activity and
station — so the deck can see what is coming. Rows changed since this PC last looked
are marked updated.
Changes save automatically.
No instrument screens yet
Add the ship's instrument PCs — their TightVNC address — to see them here.
Everything is view only; nothing is installed on the instruments from here.
connecting …
Instrument screens
The ship's instrument PCs, shown view only over VNC. Each PC already
runs its own TightVNC server — just enter its address. Nothing is installed on the
instruments from here. A screen only connects while someone is looking at it.
Display nameHost addressPortGroup
Up to 8 screens.
WinCollect display settings
The right-hand box is the actual file written to disk.
The default names (canetot.dat, mettot.dat …)
are the ones the old WinCollect used, so existing tools and year-long
time series find them — only rename if you know what reads the
file. Renaming starts a new file; the old one is left untouched.
Clear the box to go back to the default.
Save every is how often a reading is written to the
.dat file — the old program used 240 s. Setting it slower
than the instrument sends throws measurements away, so the panel warns when it
would. Screen is only how often the numbers and graphs redraw; it never
affects what is stored.
Names come from the WinCollect overview. Correct them here if an
instrument on board measures something else — the .dat files are
unaffected, only what you see.
