SCADA - UART Cal vs UART COmms system

[petesmart]

Hello matrix team,

This is properly a dumb question however....

What is the rationale for using the UART Cal component for RS 232 SCADA vs using the UART comms system component as you would find in the embedded component list?

The reason I ask is that the UART comms systems component manages TX/RX of strings versus the UART peripheral Cal component sends/receives data character by character.

Basically I'm being lazy and not writing the additional code to manage strings etc.

Interested in the reason behind your approach with SCADA

All the best

Pete

[Benj]

Hi Pete,

I can add strings to the two CAL UART components. Should be a fairly quick job to do.

Basically the only real difference is the pin connection properties. SCADA mode does not work with pins.

[petesmart]

Thanks Ben,

That would be great....is it possible to add flasher as well?

No urgency, as I said earlier I was being lazy

Btw I’m loving the SCADA feature...playing with all of the shapes and components...it there a way to layer components on top of each other and control the order? I want to layer the 7 deg display on top of the dial gauge to provide digits on top of the analogue display...

[Benj]

Hi Pete,

Hmm hadn't thought about the flasher. Let me think on it, maybe we have a high level SCADA UART component with a flasher?

I've now pushed updates to the CAL UART and CAL UART SCADA components now so they can deal with strings and byte arrays.

Btw I’m loving the SCADA feature...playing with all of the shapes and components...it there a way to layer components on top of each other and control the order?

If you use the 3D panel then you can adjust the Z coordinate of the relative components to get things on top of each other nicely. Once laid out correctly you can group the components and then move back to the 2D panel if required.

Let me know how you get on.

[petesmart]

Thanks Ben for the quick response....it’s very much appreciated

I will check out the UART mods and let you know...flasher is a nice to have but not mandatory....

I will give the 3D panel a go.....thanks for the advice

Best

Pete

[Steve]

is there a way to layer components on top of each other and control the order? I want to layer the 7 deg display on top of the dial gauge to provide digits on top of the analogue display...

Hi Pete,

I found this to be an issue too. It is linked to the "collision detection" setting which can force objects on top of each other when they get moved. We have a few ideas to make this work better, but Ben's suggestion can also help.

Regards,
Steve.

[petesmart]

Thanks Steve,

I will have a play and see how it works...

It would be interesting to see how difficult it would be to implement the equivalent functionality that you see in Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Visio where you can layer different graphics on top of each other by using the "send to front" or "send to back" functions.

I will give the z-axis a go on 3D system panel has been suggested..

Appreciate the response

All the best

Pete

[Steve]

Cheers, Pete. We're investigating the "send to back" (etc) functions as I type this. Hopefully this will be released as a further patch some point soon.