FS-8705-06 GPA (General Purpose ASCII) Manual Table of Contents
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1GPA (General Purpose ASCII) Driver Description ............................................................................................ 3
1.1 Driver Limitations ................................................................................................................................................3
2Driver Scope of Supply ................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver...........................................................................................4
3Hardware Connections................................................................................................................................... 4
1Data Array Parameters................................................................................................................................... 5
4Configuring the FieldServer as an GPA Driver Client....................................................................................... 6
4.1 Client Side Connection Parameters .....................................................................................................................6
4.2 Client Side Node Parameters ...............................................................................................................................7
4.3 Client Side Map Descriptor Parameters ..............................................................................................................7
4.3.1 FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters ..........................................................................................7
4.3.2 Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters ..................................................................................................8
4.4 Map Descriptor Example 1 –Data Recording ......................................................................................................9
4.5 Map Descriptor Example 2 –Polling..................................................................................................................10
5Configuring the FieldServer as a GPA Driver Server ...................................................................................... 11
Appendix A Useful Features................................................................................................................................. 12
Appendix A.1. Separating Data Streams..................................................................................................................12
Appendix A.1.1. Customizing Data Stream Separation using Connection Parameters........................................12
Appendix A.1.2. Changing the default end of stream character using the registry. ............................................12
Appendix A.2. Interaction with the WebServer Driver ............................................................................................12
Appendix B Troubleshooting................................................................................................................................ 13
Appendix B.1. Driver Specific Stats ..........................................................................................................................13
Appendix B.2. Driver Error Messages ......................................................................................................................13
