Can two applications be ran using one FP-1000?

[Glendinning Marine]

I have one FP-1000 connected to a FP-AI-100, FB-TB-10, FP-AI-V1, & FP-TC-K. I use these to monitor a OEM Electronic Engine Conrtol unit during it's enviromental Tenny test. I need to set up this same kind of configuration (which works great) to monitor another EEC system, which will be running in a second or third (undetermined)Tenny also, at the same time(or running at the same time but may be started at different times). My question is My PC has only one serial com port How do I run two (or more) applications with one serial port connected to one FP-1000? And can one FP-1000 be used in more than one application at the same time? Or is the FP-1000 used as a hub and I need a FP-1001 for each application that I plan to r
un.

Help.....

Thanks
John Morris
Glendinning Marine Products, Inc.

[AndreOliveira]

Hi,

In your case, since you have only one serial port, you want to use one FP-1000 to communicate with the PC and have the other "applications" with FP-1001. The FP-1000 has a port on it for RS-485 interface which can interface with up to 24 FP-1001's.

The different Fieldpoint banks (or applications if you will) will be running at the same time or not, depending on your need.

But your guess is correct, you will be using the FP-1000 as the element to interface with the PC and the other FP banks.

Best Regards

Andre Oliveira

[Glendinning Marine]

So I take it that each FP-1001 has it own address that identifies it from the others. Or I should ask if I have say three 1001's and each of them have their own say AI, TB, and TC and each of the 1001's are doing their own thing. When I build a IAK file does each of the files contain the FP-1000 and then the 1001 followed by their AI, TB, and TC. So if I had three Fieldpoint banks running with three different IAK files each share the FP-1000 in all the IAK files. There's no conflict here?

[Aaron_G]

John,

You will have one IAK file, it will have one Comm Resource (by default, "FP Res", 12 devices (1 network module + 2 IO modules per bank * 4 banks) and ~84 items (channels). Each FP-1000/1001 module will have it's address as a multiple of 10 (0, 10, 20, etc...) and the module attached to it will be addressed as the network module address +1 (for the module directly next to the network module, +2 for the next one). The FieldPoint Server is designed to allow multiple client programs to link to it at the same time. In this case, each of your client programs will be addressing a different set of modules, but they could also access the other modules.

Regards,
Aaron

[Glendinning Marine]

Ok I think I get it. One IAK file that is shared between all the different application AS LONG AS no two application try and access the same channel from the same module. So each application will see all the modules but only use channels that are assigned to that particular application. Even though more than one application may share a module. It's the assigned channel that are important.

[Aaron_G]

Pretty close. Any application can access any devices or channel in the IAK file. There is no built in feature that allow you to specify a certain instance of a program is allowed to access only certain channels. You have to be careful in your own code writing that both programs do not try to control an output channel. In that case, whichever one writes to the channel last, wins.

Regards,
Aaron