Serial TX on ION

From my understanding ION/EOS can only listen to Serial.  What is it that you are trying to do?  I am currently working on a system where I am able to send commands through the relays on the I/O gateway to send the info back to the source.

P

I am hoping to send a watchdog message to the show control system, as a system status indicator.

The Show Control will send a serial macro fire message, and the ION would reply with a string indicating the message was received.

J.

No answer for me ETC?

Hi Jim,

I believe the answer is No, we don't currently allow you to send serial commands from Ion. Admittedly I don't know a great deal about it, so I could be wrong. I'll see what I can find out for you.

Currently there is not a way to source/send a serial command form a console through a gateway. This is a request that has become more common recently and I will certainly share your input with the Eos and Congo development teams for consideration in future software versions.

Thanks - ths would be vry useful.

Also, it is very necessary to be able to assert the state of I/O devices, i.e. to set SMPTE/MIDI/SERIAL to be either on or off, rather than just being able to toggle the current state.  This is a must for show control.

Can I have this by Monday? :)

Most macros that toggle, and append the command [Enable] or [Disbable] to the command line can be changed from "toggle" macros, to "absolute" macros, by adding [Enable] or [Disable] to the macro in the macro editor. This can only be done from the macro editor, because learning the macro will always result in a toggle macro.

Ex:

[Learn 1 ]

[SMPTE_Time_Code]

[Learn]

Results in a macro that toggles SMPTE on and off, and displays enable or disable on the command line. To make this macro always enable SMPTE, edit the macro in the macro editor, and add the command [Enable] (from the 3rd row of buttons) after [SMPTE]. Now this macro will always enable SMPTE, and never diable SMPTE.

This ability has not been documented, because not all toggles handle the [Enable/Disable] command yet, but Setup, and ShowControl commands do work.

I miscommunicated regarding the abilities of Congo on this topic. Congo does support the ability to send Serial commands from it's interface.

In Congo Action Macros can be attached to any Sequence Step, or as part of an Event Trigger, and can do a combination of actions, including sending different strings out of multiple different I/O Gateways and the local serial, plus multiple console playback actions as part of the same Action Macro.

The syntax is explained in the Congo manual and online help - search for “Serial”