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S1C is designed to address either the ‘Master’ device or any of the devices listening
to the ‘Master’ device. The master device will be the device that all S1C
communications are directed for access to the BLink network.
S1C may also be used directly with devices that are currently a client within another
master device’s BLink network, in this instance access to the BLink network is not
possible. This would be used locally to ask for current information of that particular
device, such as Timecode etc.
BLID? Retrieves the current BLink ID for the device. The BLink ID is determined by
the BLink master and cannot be set otherwise.
BLGR?
Returns the BLink group the slave belongs. Slave devices can be
addressed individually or within groups. There are six groups so the reply will be an
‘A’ through ‘F’ dependant on current group or will return ‘0’ (zero) if slave does not
belong to any group.
BLGR=
Sets the slave unit to belong to a particular group of slaves. Values
should be an ASCII ‘A’ through to ‘F’ or a ‘0’ if to remove the slave from all groups.
Sending user defined data to BLink slave devices
DASP=<string>
Send a user-defined <string> to the serial port on the slave devices.
The command should be used along with the formatting required to address slave
units individually or globally. i.e.
“#@7;DASP=Hello
\
n”
Will send “DASP=Hello” to slave ID #7
“#@;DASP=”To All
\
n”
Will send “DASP=To All” to every slave
This command will also work with binary data such as
#@3;DASP>Data\n Will send Data to slave ID #3
The overall length of the command should be kept as short as reasonably possible
and must not exceed 112 bytes.
Sending user defined data from slave devices back to the master.
DAMP=<string>
Send a user-defined <string> to the serial port on the master device.
i.e. “DAMP=Hello
\
n”
Will arrive at the master as “#@n;DAMP=Hello”
- where n = slave ID
