Menu path: Tools > Synchronization Service
The Synchronization Service is required to update the Data Crow Reader app. Its the gateway to your module and item information. Once it is running, your app can connect to it by scanning the QR code. The app will take it from there.
Before you start the service, make sure to select the correct IP address. The Service Address drop-down contains all possible IP addresses, but you do need to pick the most applicable IP address from this list. The ones ending with .1 are generally too generic for Data Crow to use. In the example below I would pick the bottom one.
After that, you simply start the service. After which it will present a QR-code. Scan this QR code using your Data Crow Reader app.
Keep the service running until the app has completed the synchronisation. The app will ask you to login. Of you have set up a user enter its credentials. If you haven’t, log in with username SA and no password.
If the connection fails, please check whether you selected the correct IP address. NordVPN has a terrific article on this: https://nordvpn.com/blog/what-is-my-local-ip-address/
Connected to a server. When the full client is connected to a server, the Synchronization Service shows the QR code of that server, so the Data Crow Reader app connects to the server. No service is started on your own computer anymore. Below the QR code are the settings you can enter in the app by hand: HTTPS, the server address and the port. The standalone full client shows these as well.
Web client. The web client shows the same QR code under Settings, Data Crow Reader.
Two-factor authentication. Versions of the app which do not support it yet cannot log in with a user who has switched on two-factor authentication. A login of the app also ends after a time without activity: log in again when the app asks for it.
More about the app itself, and what is loaded into it: The Data Crow Reader App.
