Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> · Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:50:17 +0200

Hi all,

I have set up stream device to talk to an ADC converter via rs232. The
records and protocols look like this:

---
record (stringin, "G2:ADC16-TEST")
{
    field (DESC, "answer string")
    field (DTYP, "stream")
    field (INP,  "@adc16.proto getData ADC16_1")
    field (SCAN, "5 second")
}

record (ai, "G2:ADC16-TEST_CH0")
{
    field (DESC, "ADC0")
    field (DTYP, "stream")
    field (INP, "@adc16.proto getADC0 ADC16_1")
    field (SCAN, "I/O Intr")
}
[...] 8 adc channels
---

---
Terminator = CR LF;

getData {
    out ":0400000008..";
    in "%41c";
}

getADC0 {
    in "%*5c%4x";
}
[...] 8 adc channels
---

I get the full answer string from the device into the first record. It looks like this:

---
pt@pt-steward ~ $ caget G2:ADC16-TEST
G2:ADC16-TEST                  :041000000000000000000000000000000000EC
---

The string needs to be parsed into numerals. The first 5 characters (command string) are not needed, neither the last two (checksum).
The remaining characters need to be processed in groups of 4 (16 bit per channel) and parsed from hex. This is what I intend to do with 
in "%*5c%4x";
for the first channel. The next channel would skip 9 characters, the next 13 and so on.
However, this does not appear to work out. Everything works fine when I change the records to "stringin" type and parse for "%*5c%4c" instead. But parsing hex into ai never yields a single value.

Any ideas why this does not work, and how I can be made work?

cu
  Gerrit

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System