We have some use cases where a number of Serial/Ethernet protocol devices need to be supplemented with some GPIO Dry Contact information from the same devices; is anyone aware of the most effective way to combine the information from the Advantech GPIO driver with the serial information for a different protocol, so the Summary GPIO information and Serial device information effectively appear from the same element/device? [Short of writing a bespoke connector for each of the devices]. Note, the Advantech GPIO unit returns 128 GPIO point in a single poll, but it is only 1 or 2 of these that need to be associated with each Serial element/device.
Hi Alex,
For this type of implementation, a possible option could be using element connections. With element connections, you can pass a parameter value from a source to a destination element.
In this case the the element running the Advantech GPIO unit will be source element. In that driver you can map the required GPIO points to single parameters. The destination element will be running the the Serial/Ethernet protocol. You can create a parameter in this driver that will be updated from the source element.
Hope it helps.