How to map 8 Booleans into 1 byte for TCP/IP?

[Jeff in Pleasanton]

I'm building a cRIO <-> TPC-2006 communication scheme.  I'd like to map 8 Booleans into a single byte for TCP-IP comm between the devices.  I've searched through the available vis and haven't found a clean way to do it.  My backup idea is multiply each of them invidually by appropriate powers of 2 and then add to create a numeric byte that I would convert to a string for TCP-IP.  Is there a better way?

[GuenterMueller]

Hello Jeff.

I would use the "Boolean Array To Number" function from the Boolean palette.
Is there a good reason not to do so?

Best regards, Guenter

[tst]

Other than using the previous suggestion (followed by Byte Array to String, or course), you should consider whether you want to complicate your code and spend processor power on doing this just to save bandwidth.

LV allows you to do communication protocols extremely easily by providing VIs (in the advanced palette) for flattening and unflattening any data to and from a string. If you search the example finder for "TCP" you should find some examples of this. Also, if you search the site for "messaging protocol" you should find a good tutorial about this.