Network - Generic Output (User-defined ASCII) (TCP) - 15

Description

These Generic Output drivers allow the user to output user definable ASCII strings from Qinsy.

In the Qinsy Console you can find the Generic Editor from the following icon:

With the Generic Editor the user can create and output a driver definition file which needs to be selected in the online Graphical User Interface (GUI):

Driver Information

Database Setup

Select the driver that supports the required output interface:

• Serial

  • Select the COM port to which you want to output. Make sure the settings comply with the settings of the destination serial port.

• UPD

  • Define the UPD port on which you want to output

  • Define the IP Range you want to output 
    
    

    IP address	Explanation
    255.255.255.255	Driver will broadcast the message to all PCs within the network
    10.0.0.255	Driver will broadcast to all PCs wich have an IP address that starts with 10.0.0.xxx
    10.0.0.102	Driver will broadcast to the PC with that particular IP address

    
    

• TCP

  • Define the port on which you want to output

  • Define the IP address of the client (target device / PC). Only the PC / device with that particular IP address is able to receive the data and needs to be using TCP. 

• MQTT

  • Enter the address of the MQTT Broker including the url schema (e.g. mqtt://) the address/url (e.g. 127.0.0.1 or broker.emqx.io) and the Port (e.g. 1883) together, e.g. mqtt://broker.emqx.io:1883

  • On the next page enter credentials (if configured in the MQTT broker)

  • A client Id. A suffix will be automatically generated based on the Qinsy dongle Id and the system Id to ensure a unique client Id

  • Enter a connection timeout and a keep alive timeout.

    • The keep alive timeout indicates the maximum time that should pass without communications between client and server. If no messages pass in this time, the client will ping the broker.

    • The connection timeout indicates the maximum time that the underlying library will wait for a connection before failing.

  • The layout Purpose needs to be driver

  • The output type needs to be MQTT

Online

1. Select Add to add your output definitions (strings) or go to the next option which will allow you to create layouts while Online:
   

   

   
   
   

2. The already created output driver layouts will be shown:
   

   

   
   

   • Select one of the available layouts and select Next or select Edit Layout to start the Generic Layout Editor to

     1. edit your layout 

     2. create a new layout

   • Select Next

3. In this page you can still change a few settings which can be useful:
   

   

   
   
   

4. Here you can
   

   

   
   

   1. Enable or disable the output of the added output driver layouts

   2. View the resulting output string

   3. Add more or remove output Layouts on the output port 

   4. Edit the selected output layout