Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:23:55 +0200

Hello Christophe,

The reason seems to be that the device sends an acknowledge after

setting DCP, or simply echos the command (when designed for a serial

console). So you get the reply from your setPwr protocol and don't

consume it.

StreamDevice tries its best to avoid this situation. It discards all

"old" input at the beginning of a new out command. But it cannot discard

input that is still in the device. So this is what happens:

You send: "DCP=1" and the record is finished.
Before you send "REM/" StreamDevice flushes the input.
The device echos "DCP=1"
You send "REM/"
You receive the "DCP=1"

To avoid this change the setPwr protocol:
setPwr{
         out "%{DCP=0|DCP=1}"; # or: out "DCP=%i"
         in  "DCP=%*i";
      }

Then the protocol waits for the echoed command and the next command

starts with a clean interface.

Dirk

On 16.10.2014 10:07, haquin wrote:

Hi All,

I am using StreamDevice with Asyn TCP connection to control a power supply.
I have some periodic read (power ON/OFF or Ready/Fault or Local/distant)
  and commands (switch power ON/OFF or reset) can be send asynchronously.

My problem is that periodic reads are disturbed because they also
receives the strings of the asynchronous commands.
In such case the record goes temporarily into CALC INVALID state.

Following is the message I can have when I issue Power ON command (the
record reading the local/distant status is disturbed)
TCP_BPI TST-BPI:Ctrl: Input "DCP=1" mismatch after 0 bytes
TCP_BPI TST-BPI:Ctrl: got "DCP=1" where "REM/" was expected

How could I have the periodic read not being disturbed by asynchronous
commands ?

thanx in advance for your help.

here is an example of my records/protocol:

#####################################################
record(bi, "$(EQPT):Ctrl") {
   field(SCAN, "1 second")
   field(DTYP, "stream")
   field(INP, "@alimISrc_SerialProtocol.db getRem TCP_BPI")
   field(ZNAM, "LOCAL")
   field(ONAM, "DISTANT")
}

getRem{
   out "REM/";
   in "REM/%u";
}
#####################################################
record(bo, "$(EQPT):PwrCmdOut") {
   field(SCAN, "Passive")
   field(DTYP, "stream")
   field(OUT, "@alimISrc_SerialProtocol.db setPwr TCP_BPI")
   field(ZNAM, "OFF")
   field(ONAM, "ON")
}

setPwr{
         out "%{DCP=0|DCP=1}";
     }
#####################################################

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System