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Preconfiguration "PmChar - DALI"

Control of the DALI bus by means of the PmChar communication driver with test panel.

This preconfiguration can be activated when creating a new object (e.g. by "New object ..." in the context menu of the object or by pressing the Insert key after selecting the object).
 
This preconfiguration is included in the "/ Communication / Protocols and other communications / DALI" group.
 
This preconfiguration can be created in the PmaFolder, PmaRoot or PmaPrototype object.

- The preconfiguration creates an object of the PmaFolder type containing PmaComm object with PmaCommMsg subobjects and following objects: PmaPanel, PmaData and PmaSequencer.
- The preconfiguration is created including the panel (object of the PmaPanel type) is functional also as Web panel.


The preconfiguration allows to choose two types of connection with the computer:
- via Ethernet
- via the computer's serial port (RS232)
According to the selected type of converter: Communication in DALI networks.

The preconfiguration uses the PmChar communication driver for communication with DALI bus. The communication interface is based on the method of the created PmaFolder object named "RunCmd". Two parameters are passed to this method. First addr parameter represents the value of the device address (or group of devices) in the network. Second cmd parameter represents the command to be executed.

The designer "DataToSnd" method of the PmaComm object creates complex message format that is then sent by the PmaSequencer object into the PmaCommMsg object for processing. Individual phases of the communication are processed into the user logging system by the WriteToLog method. In the testing panel it is possible to choose a command or query to the DALI bus and in the right part of the panel it is possible to watch the records of the logging system.
These configurators can be set before the preconfiguration is created:
The name of created objectName of the object created in the Pma object tree.
The maximum name length is 30 characters.
This is a system name, so it must contain only alphanumeric and must not contain any diacritics (i.e. national dependent characters), empty string, spaces and first character must not be a number.
Default: "Dali"
Communication type
Network TCP/IP communication (default)
Serial communication
Network addressNetwork address of the remote device (e.g. of the PLC device), to which the communication will be connected.
The address can be entered as:
- IPv4 full address (e.g. "192.168.0.15")
- IPv4 address of this computer (i.e. "127.0.0.1")
- IPv4 computer name (e.g. "server11")
- IPv4 name of this computer (i.e. "localhost")
- IPv6 full address (e.g. "2a02:c38:8136:800a:37a:ab66:6fc9:accd")
- IPv6 address of this computer (i.e. "::1")

Macro expression can be used for input (it is evaluated after the application is launched).
After the preconfiguration is created, the "PmaComm > Setting the parameters of the Ethernet-client > Network address" configurator will be set to this value.
Serial portSelection of the communication serial port.
The value can be change by the OpenPort method.
The value can be detected by method GetProtParam("SerPort").
After the preconfiguration is created, the "PmaComm > Setting the parameters of the serial link > Serial port" configurator will be set to this value.
Not set - The object is not connected to any port after the application is launched and the serial port can be selected dynamically by the algorithm (by the PmaComm.OpenPort method).
COM1, COM2,..,COM66 - The specified serial port is opened after the application is launched. This port must be correctly configured and accessible in Windows OS (no one can use it).
For serial link each PmaComm object must have defined another communication port. For example, if one PmaComm object communicates through COM1, then next PmaComm object can communicate for example through COM2 (COM3, …) but it mustn't communicate through COM1.

History:
Pm8.03.13: Created
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