FS-8700-41 Simplex 4100 Driver Manual

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Appendix A.8.1. Extending the List of Show Attributes

Youcanextendthelistofattributesandattribute statesthatthedriverrecognizesby modifyingtheconfigurationCSVfile.

Thefollowingexampleaddsthreeattributesand4a ttributestates.Ifadevicereportsan attributeof‘LIGHTSTATE’as‘BRIGHT’thenthedri verwillloadarrayelement32with thevalue41.

 

 

 

 

 

Useadigit.

 

 

Keyword

AttributeDefinitions.

Whenallocating

Thethree

 

 

startsanew

Thenamewillbe

methodsare

 

 

sectionofthe

strippedofall

offsets,bemindful

described

Protocolmust

CSVfile.

spacesbetweenthe

oftheoffsets

above.

bedefinedon

 

lastcharacterand

alreadyused.

 

everyline.

 

thecomma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driver_Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sim4100_Attr_

sim4100_Attr_Offset,

sim4100 Attr_Method,

protocol

 

BROKEN,

30,

 

 

1,

 

sim4100

 

FIXED,

31,

 

 

1,

 

sim4100

 

LIGHTSTATE,

32,

 

 

1,

 

sim4100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driver_Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sim4100_Attr_State_Name,

sim4100_Attr_State_value,

protocol

 

 

DIM,

 

40,

 

 

sim4100

 

 

BRIGHT,

 

41,

 

 

sim4100

 

 

 

 

 

Usevaluesthatarenotallocatedtothe

 

 

AttributeStates.

pre definedlistofstates.

 

 

 

Appendix A.9. Synchronizing the FieldServer with the Panel

WhenusingtheXpointfunctiontostorepointstate

s,eachtimethepaneldoesawarmstart

itsetsallpointstatestonormalandthenstarts

evaluatingeverysingleone.Thus,aftera

warmstart,theFieldServerwillreceiveXpointmes

sagesfromthepanelforeverypointnot

inanormalstate.Thisprovidesonesynchronizatio

nmethod.Thelimitationofthismethodis

thattheSimplexpanelsdonotreportwhenapoint’

sstatechangesbacktonormal.Thusto

maintainthesynchronizationtheupstreamdevicemu

stclearthepointtozeroonceithas

readitsabnormalstate,i.e.Theupstreamdevice

shouldconsiderthedatareportedbythe

Xpointfunctionaslatcheddata.

 

 

A second method is to connect/reset the FieldServer

when there are no points in an

abnormalstate.

 

 

AthirdmethodispollpointstatesusingtheClist

functionasdescribedinAppendixA.20.

ThiswaytheFieldServerstateswillalwaysbeupda

ted.Pollingisslowandinasystemwith

manypointsitispossiblethatitmaytakeseveral

minutestoupdatestatusinformationforall

points. Thuscombiningthismethodwiththeuseof

 

XpointMapDescriptorsgivesthebest

ofbothworlds. Whenapointchangesto‘not’norm

 

al,thentheFieldServergetsthestate

change from the Xpoint function immediately and at

the same time synchronization is

assuredbythecontinuouspolling.

 

 

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