Receiving an ASCII telegram over TCP connection

Ignition
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Hello,

I've created a TCP driver that receives "telegrams" from a DigiTemp-E receiver. I've tried rooting around forums and inductive university, but I am getting lost trying to find how ignition receives this data. When it is set up in a PLC, a 128 bit Sint array is created to receive it, and I'm having trouble duplicating that as Ignition limits me to a 4-byte array.

I read that people write a "listening script" but I only know as much about python as I've learned designing screens. Is there a video or page in the user manual I'm overlooking that goes a little more into detail with receiving ASCII characters?

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I'd say welcome to the forums, but your choice of user name jumped out at me, negatively. Consider asking a mod to help you change that to something less insulting.

This a professional forum, and while anonymity is sometimes necessary, proper names and profile information help make the impression you need to get help from volunteers.

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Oops, sorry.

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If you're wanting to change your user name, simply make a reply here: Change Forum User Name, and they will usually change it to whatever you ask for.

If you're already copying the SINT into a PLC, you could retrieve it as a string from the PLC using an OPC tag