9.67 AtlanticSat-ASC300

This page describes the device driver and the device window for the ASC Atlantic Satellite Corporation beacon receivers of series 3xx

You have to select the model name to adapts the frequency range. The driver was tested via Ethernet, but should also work on serial RS232 port.

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type.

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 unit.

parameter description
model The beacon receiver model
Serial Remember to set the line parameters for the serial interface (only if connected to serial port of beacon receiver and not to Ethernet)

Ethernet interface

The Ethernet port of ASC3xx is realized with an internal Moxa N-Port server. Therefore you have to configure this N-Port server with the Moxa software tool to "TCP Server Mode" before you can connect the sat-nms MNC system.

  1. Reset the Ethernet on the back of the unit and start all over (take about 10sec)
  2. Unit is set to remote and address is set to 3 for now
  3. Make sure both switches on the rear need to be set to Enet and RS232
  4. Open NPort search utility and click Search and the assigned OP address should appear
  5. Highlight IP and click on Assign IP and enter the desired IP address (do not use DHCP)
  6. Open the webinterface of beacon/receiver = NPort server
  7. Go to Operating Settings / Port 1 and set Operation Mode to "TCP Server Mode" and keep the default settings except Delimiter 1 and 2 are both set to 0. Keep the port number 4001.
  8. Go to Serial Settings / Port 1 and set Baudrate=2400, data bits=8, stop bits=1, parity=none and Flow control=none. None.(it was RTS/CTS)
  9. Save settings and restart NPort server
  10. It should be now possible to configure the device drivers interface with [IP]:4001. (example: 192.168.10.123:4001)

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.test TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
config.readBackDelay INTEGER SAVE SETUP IntegerRange (100 .. 10000)
config.model CHOICE SAVE SETUP EnumRange (unknown ASC302LE ASC350L ASC300L-D ASC300LW ASC300C ASC300D-70 ASC300Ku1 ASC300Ku2 ASC300KuET ASC300X)
voltage FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.00 .. 0.00)
frequency FLOAT DoubleRange (0.00 .. 0.00)
attn FLOAT DoubleRange (0.0 .. 60.0)
internal.v FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.00 .. 0.00)
internal.a FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.0 .. 60.0)
internal.f FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.00 .. 0.00)
internal.f1 TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
internal.f2 TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
faults.01 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Lock alarm)