This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Xytronix X-400 / X-600 I/O controller family. The device driver is actually limited to monitor and control a X-400 or X-600 main module with one to six X-11S dual relay output modules.
The state of the relays are displayed as ON/OFF at drivers device window, the may be controlled there directly. In parallel, the driver provides an integer variable for each relay using the values 0/1 for the relay states. These integer parameters may be used to integrate the relays into the sat-nms framework for M&C of plain digital I/O functions, permitting to access each relay through an Output logical device.
Device window pages
The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .
--- Shows / commands the relay states.
--- The faults page.
--- The device info page.
--- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.Configuration parameters
At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the device.
| parameter | description |
|---|---|
| address | Must be set to the IP address of the X-400 / X-600 module |
| relays | Must be set to the number of relays actually controlled by the X-400 / X-600 module. The relays must be enumerated consecutively in X-400 / X-600 Web-UI, starting at 'relay1'. |
Variables defined by this device driver
| name | type | flags | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| info.driver | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| lowLevel.cmd | TEXT | StringRange | |
| lowLevel.reply | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| faults.99 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (Communication) |
| faults.commstat | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.type | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.port | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.frame | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.supplyVoltage | FLOAT | R/O | DoubleRange R/O (0.00 .. 0.00) |
| info.time | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| config.relays | CHOICE | SAVE SETUP | EnumRange (2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16) |
| config.polarity | CHOICE | SAVE SETUP | EnumRange (NRM INV) |
| relay.num.1 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.2 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.3 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.4 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.5 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.6 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.7 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.8 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.9 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.10 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.11 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.12 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.13 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.14 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.15 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.num.16 | INTEGER | IntegerRange (0 .. 1) | |
| relay.on.1 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.2 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.3 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.4 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.5 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.6 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.7 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.8 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.9 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.10 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.11 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.12 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.13 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.14 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.15 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) | |
| relay.on.16 | CHOICE | EnumRange (OFF ON) |