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Are there any pointers or gotcha's involved in using (4) e-net to RS-232 adapters under LV?

I need to talk to 16 RS-232 devices.

I have ordered (4) enet to rs-232 comm servers to handle this task.

These devices will be on a dedicated LAN with no DHCP server (or whatever they call the nodes that hand out IP's).

The catalog makes it sound like you plug these gizmo's in and "BINGO" you have a bunch of serial ports.

Is this going to be as ieasy as it sounds?

Ben
Retired Senior Automation Systems Architect with Data Science Automation LabVIEW Champion Knight of NI and Prepper LinkedIn Profile YouTube Channel
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Yup. The driver mounts the remote ports as local com ports through a utility called NI Ports. The com numbers will show up as regular com ports (COM5-8 for example). Then, when LabVIEW opens the com port, our driver opens the remote port. The only real difference is that there will be some additional latency between reads and writes (due to network conditions, etc.). So you may need to add some time to your read timeouts.
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Thank you Chris!

That is one of the best "Yup"s that I have heard in a long time.

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