Perle Systems 5500161-40 - Manual (Page 286)

Accessing I/O Data Via TruePort
286 IOLAN SDS/SCS/STS/MDC User’s Guide, Version 4.0
Format of API Commands
There are two groups of commands:
z Get Commands—Retrieve values of the I/O channel registers
z Set Commands—Set values on the I/O channel registers.
Note: All commands need to be written to the COM port as a single write.
I/O Channel registers are all assigned unique addresses, which need to be referenced in all of the
commands. Please refer to the documentation specific you the applicable mode, for the list and
addresses of all the registers.
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A4 A4/T4 Registers on page 280
T4 A4/T4 Registers on page 280
A4D2 A4D2/A4R2 Registers on page 281
A4R2 A4D2/A4R2 Registers on page 281
D4 D4/D2R2 Registers on page 282
D2/R2 D4/D2R2 Registers on page 282
Get Commands
The following tables show the general structure to be used for Get commands.
Note: Numeric values provided in the API documentation are in Hexadecimal (Hex) format.
Command Format
Byte(s) # of Bytes Value
1 1 Command Code:
z 0x01 – Get “coils” (Boolean register)
z 0x03 – Get “holding registers” (R/W registers)
z 0x04 – Get “input registers” (R only register)
2-3 2 Starting register number (see A4/T4 Registers on page 280 ,
A4D2/A4R2 Registers on page 281 , or D4/D2R2 Registers on page 282
for this value).
4-5 2 Number of registers to read. If this value is greater than 1, the response
will contain the values of multiple consecutive registers.
Response Format
Byte(s) # of Bytes Value
1 1 Command that this is a response to. If an error has been detected, the
command value will have the high bit set (OR with 0x80). For
example: The command is 0x04, so the command field in the response
would be 0x84.
2 1 Length of data (in bytes) starting in next byte.
3-n n Requested register values.