Cannot communicate with IGC 100

[sswager]

I am trying to establish an ethernet connection from a windows machine to an SRS IGC 100.  When I try to configure it on MAX it is not showing up.  Do I need the real time module?  The machine and the IGC are on the same subnet.

[AdnanZ]

Are you trying to communicate with the SRS IGC 100 using the TCP/IP protocol? I looked at the product page and it seems to have a RS 232 interface or an optional GPIB interface. Can you explain better as to what you are trying to do and how you are looking to communicate with the device?

Message Edited by Adnan Z on 08-18-2009 06:02 PM

[sswager]

I am trying to control the device remotely through an ethernet connection using a this Labview development kit.  I think it uses TCP/IP.  I am currently trying to set it up with MAX I cannot locate it on MAX.

  http://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/programs/labview/SrsIgcLv.ZIP

[jack47]

Their pdf says it uses GPIB or serial communication, but they mention broadcasting the data of TCP/IP.  I think you have to hook a PC to it locally and that PC can broadcast the data over TCP/IP.

http://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/PDFs/ApplicationNotes/IG1labviewapp.pdf

[AdnanZ · Accepted solution]

Well, if you open up the VIs that are provided in the LLB, it has GPIB communication as default for the resource name. But, you can definitely use VISA to communicate with ethernet devices. In order to setup the VISA alias in MAX, follow these tutorials:

Ethernet Instrument Control Tutorial
How Do I Configure an Instrument to Communicate via TCP/IP in MAX?

[JILee]

I wrote the firmware for the embedded web server (EWS) on the IGC100.  It wasn't designed to be a remote interface that will let you execute any command, primarily for security reasons.  The EWS serves up data to a browser, and lets you control some instrument functions via the browser, not all.  Also, while you can query the EWS and get data via direct ethernet communication, the commands won't be what we list in the manual.

The main ideas with the EWS were to 1) allow people to dump data to a CSV file without writing any code and 2) to easily monitor vacuum chambers anywhere in the world w/o proprietary software.

Jim