Serial ASCII Driver
Deploy & Information
SmartDriver Serial ASCII Driver is a smart driver to support serial ASCII communications on EBO EcoStruxure Building Operation Servers such as the Enterprise server (ES) and Automation Server Premium (AS-P). On ES the communication will be on RS232 network and on AS-P it will be on RS485. SmartDriver Serial ASCII Driver will allow ASCII characters sent over the EBO serial port. The driver supports only two types of points namely SmartDrivers String Output Point and SmartDrivers String Input Point.
The serial driver is available in sdrv packages that should be deployed on EBO servers using the EBO workstation. Two ASCII driver packages will be provided:
1. ASCII ES V1_6xx.sdrv to deploy on an ES
2. ASCII ASP V1_6xx.sdrv to deploy on an AS-P
Deployment allows the driver to become readily available in the server to install. It is possible to get more than one driver deployed in a server and not all have to be used.
The procedure to deploy and create SmartDrivers driver objects is described in the document EBO Technical Reference Guide.
Driver information is displayed in the property window of the SmartDrivers driver object. This information called the metadata of the driver is created when the driver is packaged by the software producer. Given below is the typical details seen for the Serial ASCII driver.
SmartDriver Interface
SmartDrivers design supports the hierarchical architecture. Create a Serial Interface, Device, and then String Input and Output Points.
SmartDriver Serial ASCII Driver supports only two Point types namely the String Input Point and String Output Point. String Input Point enables receiving character data from the serial port depending on the communication settings configured in the system. String Output Point enables sending character data to the serial port.
This will provide the option to choose the point data type.