UK Timecode Systems Ltd. Unit 6, Elgar Business Centre, Moseley Road, Hallow, Worcester.
WR26NJ. UK
All the following commands should be directed to the master device only
BLST?
(Deprecated
–
use BLSS/BLSP)
Returns the number of known BLink devices on the network and a number or
sequence of numbers that represent a bitmap of which slave devices are active. A
reply of BLST=5, 91 means there are currently 5 devices online, and if the 91
(decimal) if converted to a binary value i.e. 1011011 will give a bitmap representation
of active devices where bit 0 represents device 1, bit 1 represents device 2, and so
on. In this instance devices 1, 2, 4, 5, & 7 are all active. Each bitmap number
represents 8 devices so a third number in the reply represents the bitmap of devices
9 through to 16 and so on. This request should then be followed with individual
requests for a particular device’s current status.
BLST Command must be used direct to the connected master device.
Addressing a slave device such as #@3:BLST? will return nothing.
BLST=n
Retrieve basic status information from a BLink network device. Where
n is the index into the table of stored devices.
For instance; BLST=1 will reply with the details of the first device in the table, and
BLST=2 will reply with the details of the second device in the table, and so on.
The statuses will be returned as an ASCII string with each status comma delimited
on each line. The s
tatus’ to be returned will be:
-
1. ID (Table Index)
2. Unique ID (hex form of 32 bit number i.e. 8 characters)
3. Unit Type
4. Last Reply (how long since last reply from client [x10mS])
5.
Replied Timecode “HHMMSSFF”
6.
Replied UserBits “UUUUUUUU”
7. Sync Mode (0=INT, 1=Ext RF.. see TCSC command)
8. FPS (0=25,1=23.98,2=24,,,etc)
9.
Ext Sync Std (0=Off, 1=PAL… see GLSD command)
10. Locked to Timecode Source (0 or 1)
11. Battery (1-5)
12. On PSU (0 or 1)
13. UserBits Lock (1=User Settable 0=Locked to RF Master)
14. Attached Device Type
–
See GCMD command
15. Current Assigned Group Number
–
0 if none
16. Attached Device Flags. Value should be broken into binary
bits
A typical return from this request will be:-
BLST=1,12ABCD78,6,121,00043410,00000000,1,1,0,1,3,0,0,2,0,3<LF>
We may wish to expand this list in the future so currently ignore any subsequent
statuses.
