Send ASCII command (STAT) thru ETHERNET connection

[rvillarr]

Hello everyone, I am trying to send a STAT command and receive back data using a ethernet connection. Can anyone strat me out with this..

Thanks

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Send a STAT command to what?

[RTSLVU]

To what instrument? 

The easy way would be to use VISA

1. Use the instrument's IP address as the VISA resource
2. Use a VISA Write to send your command text string "STAT" with the proper termainator (?).
3. Use a VISA Read to receive the responce from the instrument

[mikeporter]

In addition to what instrument/device? There is also the question of the protocol that the device uses to communicate over Ethernet.

Mike...

[rvillarr]

To an ACU which is a control system, I have been using Tera Term followed by a MACRO that I wrote to connect thru ethernet, send stat command and receive data back, Elevation, Azmith, Polar and signal strength.

[RTSLVU]

Here is a screen shot of a sub-vi I use to get information from and to control a Thermotron 8800 thermal chamber through Ethernet.

Of course you will have to parse the text returned instead of convert string to numbers like I do here.

[rvillarr]

Great! i will try this..Thanks!

[mikeporter]

OK, so you are using a telnet connection to the device. You can do the exact same thing using the telnet VIs for LV.

Mike...

[rvillarr]

Built Thermotron 8800 VI WITH VERSION 8.2.1 and keep getting (Selecting Values have wrong type) can someone help. Here is the VI

[RTSLVU]

Well this was meant as an example ot how to comunicate with an instrument over Ethernet using the TCP protocal VI's.

If you actually need to comunicate with a Thermotron SE-8800 thermal chamber controller via Ethernet I will post the full VI set.

In general make your selector an Enumerated type and your case needs to match your selector values with a case for every value.