Shawn details the MD-34A Windows 10 Industrial Tablet Desk Dock from Siemens in Episode 45 of The Automation Minute, Season 5.




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MD-34A Product Website

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Previous episode on the MD-34A 

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Shawn's Siemens S7 Course



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Shawn Tierney (Host):  Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Shawn Tierney here from Insights. And today, we're gonna take a look at the desk dock for the MD dash 34 a Windows 10 tablet from Siemens. You remember I took a look at this I five tablet a while back, and at the time, I asked if they could send me the desk dock or docking station so that I could leave it here on the stage and actually use it because it's a gray I five Windows PC that happens to also be a tablet and a barcode reader and an RFID reader and all these other things too. In any case, it did come in, several weeks later, and I filmed an episode.

I don't know what happened to it, but it never got published. So, I wanted to in appreciation for them sending this over and sponsoring this episode so it's ad free, I did wanna cover. So in any case, let me first, though, take this guy out and, shut her down because her fan is running. I got it doing all kinds of cool stuff. Now I was really surprised.

I turned it on and it still had all battery. Even though I hadn't used it in months, it still had a full battery. So I really appreciated that. That's cool. A lot of times at home, my tablet, you know, even if it's off, it still will, drain batteries.

So I didn't like that at all. So look at that guy turned off. Now I'm not gonna do an unboxing because the, the box was just a simple cardboard box that came in there wrapped in plastic and very secure, but there wasn't a lot to show with that, so I didn't go and dig up that archival footage. But what I do wanna do here now is go to overhead mode, and then let me go ahead and unplug the ethernet cable and the power cable. This This is the same power cable that came with the tablet.

Right? So you don't have to go and buy that again. And let's take a look at what comes with this, what they call their, desktop or what I would call a docking station. And I think we can even zoom in a little bit more on it. Here, let's try.

Okay. The first thing I wanted to show you is that it has these two metal pegs that make it very easy to align the actual tablet when you go to pull it in. I'm gonna go ahead and bring the tablet back out here, and we can see those two little holes there. And so that makes it extremely easy to align it up and put it in there nice and secure. Right?

And so I really like that. And so that's the first thing here, and you can see all the connections down there at the bottom. Alright. And then if we take a look at the back here, this is where we see this is where I have the power going in. And here we can see two, sorry, two USB two point o's, not three point o's.

Alright. There is a three point o and a USB c in the unit itself. And then we have another RJ 45. This is a ten one hundred. So this is great if you're just leaving it on your desk and, when you plug in, you wanna get off Wi Fi.

Again, there's an r j 45 in the unit itself as well,