We are looking at the possibility of using this bluetooth device to transmit scale data from a fork truck to Ignition. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about setting this up? Assume newest version of Ignition.
It's bluetooth to RS232, so if you have the capability to use a hardware serial port with your ignition Im sure you can use it with some scripts or the Serial Driver.
For serial support in a client device, you'll need to use Vision, not Perspective.
Hi Phil,
For this site we are already using Vision, so I am glad to hear it. So we would build a window to monitor the serial data coming in with a client script that can access the bluetooth driver of the PC, then parse and log the data. So everything can be done inside Ignition, do I have that right?
Ignition doesn't know anything about bluetooth and can't access it (bar writing a custom module with a bluetooth native library).
This is all predicated on the device appearing as a plain old serial port on whatever computer you want to access it on - and whatever mechanism/driver makes that happen is not Ignition. Once it's appearing as a serial port you can presumably use the Ignition serial scripting functions to access it.
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Thanks Kevin,
As I understand they have a fork truck with a scale on it and want to monitor that serial data through their Ignition gateway. They have good wifi, maybe there is a better device to handle this?
What about something like this? Moxa NPort IA5250A-12I/O Industrial Device Server,2 RS-232/422/485,2 10/100M,Surge Protection,8DI,4DO
Does the fork truck have a Vision UI mounted on it? If so, serial in Vision will be easiest.