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Enable Disable Events#

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When activated, the Enable Disable Events task will send an S2F37 (Enable Disable Events) SECS/GEM message to the equipment.

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Inputs#

Name Data Type Description
Activate Any Activate the task

Outputs#

Name Data Type Description
Success Boolean Triggered when the task is executed with success
Error Error Triggered when the task failed for some reason

Settings#

On the General tab, you have the usual settings and the following settings:

Name Data Type Values Default Description
Operation Boolean Enable Events
Disable Events
 Enable Events Select if you want to enable or disable events
Custom Event List String Custom Event List, adds this event to the the ones given by the driver definition. Event List, one on each line, can use comments with double forward slash
Request Message Object {
"type": "L",
"value": [
{
"type": "BO",
"value": 0
},
{
"type": "L",
"value": []
}
]
}		 Custom Request Message, instead of the default.
Enable/Disable item path location String /[1] Item path location, on request message, where Enable/Disable value should be inserted. If empty no substitution is performed and primary/request message is sent as is.
Event List item path location String /[2] Item path location, on primary/request message, where Event List value should be inserted. If empty no substitution is performed and primary/request message is sent as is.
Reply Path String / Enabled when Driver Mode is different of NotifyOnly. Secondary/Reply Message to send
Success Codes String 0x00 Multiple values allowed using comma as separator ('0x01, 0x04, 0x05, 0x00'). If empty, any reply is a success.

The reply path is a useful way to navigate through the SECS/GEM message, below you can find an example:

Example:

{
    "type": "L",
    "value": [
        { "type": "A", "value": "test" },
        { "type": "BO", "value": true },
        { "type": "BI", "value": "0x01" },
        { "type": "I1", "value": 1 },
        { "type": "I2", "value": 2 },
        { "type": "I4", "value": 4 },
        { "type": "I8", "value": 8 },
        { "type": "U1", "value": 11 },
        { "type": "U2", "value": 22 },
        { "type": "U4", "value": 44 },
        { "type": "U8", "value": 88 },
        { "type": "F4", "value": 3.14 },
        { "type": "F8", "value": 3.1415 },
        { "type": "L", "value": [
            { "type": "BO", "value": [true, false, false, true] },
            { "type": "BI", "value": [1, 2, 255] },
            { "type": "I1", "value": [1, 2, 3] },
            { "type": "I2", "value": [2, 3, 4] },
            { "type": "I4", "value": [4, 5, 6] },
            { "type": "I8", "value": [8, 9, 10] },
            { "type": "U1", "value": [11, 12, 13] },
            { "type": "U2", "value": [22, 23, 24] },
            { "type": "U4", "value": [44, 45, 46] },
            { "type": "U8", "value": [88, 89, 90] },
            { "type": "F4", "value": [3.14, 3.15, 3.16] },
            { "type": "F8", "value": [3.1415, 3.141516, 3.14151617] }
        ]}
    ]
}

SECS/GEM item values can be extracted from a message using a path-like string. The separator is the "/" character. Indexes start in 1 (1..n). If using a type prefix, will match the order index.

The following examples should help to explain how to use them:

  • "/" -> would return the root node
  • "/[1]" -> would return string "test"
  • "/[4]" -> Would return integer 1
  • "/U1" -> Would return 11
  • "/U1[1]" -> Would also return 11
  • "/L/[3]" -> Would return [1, 2, 3]
  • "/[14]/[3]" -> Would also return [1, 2, 3]

The request message and reply messages can be custom created SECS-GEM messages. The JSON format can be used to create the body of the message, as shown above in the reply message example.

A SECS/GEM message can be build using JSON format, where each SECS/GEM item is represented as an object with the following format:
{
   "name": "OptionalName",
   "comment": "Optional Comment/Description",
   "type": "A",
   "value": "test"
}

The supported types are:

  • A - ASCII (Strings)
  • BI - Binary ValueBO - Boolean
  • I1, I2, I4, I8 - Signed Integers
  • U1, U2, U4, U8 - Unsigned Integers
  • F4, F8 - Float/Double
  • L - Lists

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Behavior#

In this task you choose a driver when dropping it into the workflow (if you have more than one driver associated with the controller).

Upon activation, will send an S2F37 (Enable Disable Events) message to the driver of the equipment. It will send this command to all the events in the driver definition and custom event list that are appliable.

If the reply matches what was expected in the correct path and with the correct success code, the task will emit a value true on the Success output. In case of the task , for some reason, is not able send the message or if it receives an unexpected reply, an Error is emitted.

Remarks#

There is no particular remark to be made.