FieldServer Gamewell FS-8700-83 User Manual
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5. Configuring the FieldServer as a Gamewell Serial Driver Server
The Gamewell Serial Driver provides limited server functionality. This has been developed to allows for
automated testing and Quality Assurance. It is not supported or documented however, at a client’s
request it can be extended & documented (typically at an additional cost.)
6. Advanced Topics
6.1 Driver Limitations & Exclusions
The driver does not support scaling when data is stored in a data array. The keywords
‘Data_Array_Low_Scale, Data_Array_High_Scale, Device_Low_Scale, Device_High_Scale’
have no meaning for this driver. The reason for this is that the values stored by the driver have
specific meanings based on parsing the message. Scaling is only applicable in drivers which read
and write values from the remote device.
6.2 Data Types
Messages contain Status and Action information. The status information indicated the state of a
device / circuit / panel. The action information describe the event that generated the message.
By specifying one of the following Data_Types you can filter the incoming messages so that on
certain types of messages update certain data arrays. For example, if you are only interested in
storing data from messages that report an alarm then set the Data_Tupe of that map descriptor to
‘Alarms’. If you don’t care about the particular state then use the Data_Type of ‘Any’. The driver
will set the values of the array elements non-zero if any not-normal states are reported.
Data_Type Status
Note
#
Any
1
Alarms Status:ALARM
2
Faults Status:FAULT
2
Events Status:EVENT
2
Bus Status:BUS
2
Comm Status:COMM
2
Control Status:CONTROL
2
Ack Status:ACK
2
Signal Silence
Status:SIG SIL
2
Troubles Status:FAULT
2
Supervisories
Status:EVENT and Action contains "Supv. Event in"
2
Action_Numbers
3
Action_Bits
4
Dump
5
Notes: