# Socket communication

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-communication/6337>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 29, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-communication/6337 "2013-04-29T07:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![max7184](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@max7184](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/max7184)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-communication/6337/1 "2013-04-29T07:40:17Z")

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i have this problem:  
i have to communicate with a serial device, which gives me some strings (ASCII Characters).

is the correct way to open a socket connection between the device and ignition and through this activate the data transfer?  
At this point I need to update the values ​​of some tags.  
How can I do do have always the updated data? (updating of the strings is about every 5 minutes)

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-communication/6337/2 "2013-05-21T21:21:21Z")

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You’ve mixed to completely different things here. Is it socket communication or serial communication? Or serial-over-ethernet?