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Server Configuration In Depth
Installation & Reference Guide — Doc. 5798
… and if TCP/IP communications were selected, it would look like this (fictitious IP address shown):
Definition name
Each COM Settings definition requires a unique name. A field for this data can be
found at the top left of the
COM Settings
window. We recommend choosing a name
that reflects either the location of the control system (such as SUITE3) or its function
(such as PHONEBOOK).
This name is used in the server’s user interface to identify the system data structure.
It is also sent along with error messages to the actual control system to identify the
source of an error resulting from processing one of the system-level signals defined
herein.
Control system generation
Here you specify the type of control system. The server uses this information to take
into account minor differences in the way the older generation of Crestron control
systems functioned in terms of timing and data capacity.
Communications mode
In this frame you choose RS-232 or TCP/IP connections. The details are described in
the Server Side configuration sections for RS-232 (page 16) and TCP/IP (page 17).
System-level signal definitions
In this window you can also define optional system-level signals by checking the
appropriate boxes. Doing so defines a special signal block which communicates with
its own
Intersystem Communications
symbol in your SIMPL Windows program.
In this case, you should also fill in the
Signals
field, as follows:
Signals
This is the
offset
of the
Intersystem Communications
symbol in your SIMPL
Windows program. The connection’s signal block must not overlap any other signal
block (channel 1 of) these COM Settings or else the server protocol will not be able
to be started.
Refer to the “Appendix C: ” on page 65 for more information on each of the signals
listed in the window.
Signal Block Definition
Data structures called a “signal blocks” are created on the server, each
communicating with its own
Intersystem Communications
symbol on a control
system. Each active signal block must reference a “COM Settings” data structure
which defines a connection to a control system. See “COM Settings Definition,”
above.
