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  1. if your are using a USB connection to your LPMS unit, you will have to install a driver for the UART chip that we use to communicate with the motion sensor. For all recent models these are the CP210x family of chips by SILabs. Their driver This is a fairly common chip, so you might have the driver installed already. Otherwise, SILabs's driver can be downloaded from their website, here http://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers
  2. start OpenMAT and turn on or connect your IMU if you haven't already
  3. click on the plus-shaped icon near the left-hand edge of the task bar, alternatively click on "Add/Remove Sensor" in the "Connect" menu. A window such as the following will appear.
  4. Click on the "Scan devices" button, wait for the opration to finish.  If your IMU is not connected via Bluetooth, you can interrupt the search after a few seconds.
  5. In the upper half of the window, click on the newly found IMU.
  6. Click "Add device"
  7. Click "Save devices"
  8. Select your newly added IMU from the dropdown "Preferred device" right below the menu bar, it should be the last item in the list
  9. To connect, click on the flash-icon, i.e. the leftmost icon in the screenshot.

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