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Message Stream Driver

Source: Tibbo Technology Inc.
18 December, 2015
1 min read
We’ve just released a new AggreGate device driver that enables to monitor any ASCII data coming via a Serial port or a TCP/UDP connection.

We’ve just released a new AggreGate device driver that enables to monitor any ASCII data coming via a Serial port or a TCP/UDP connection.

Suppose we have a device that sends an ASCII data stream. Let it be a remote GPS receiver connected via TCP 1001 port, which will be sending us its coordinates once per second. Each string ends with a newline character '\n'.

Using the driver is extremely easy.

  • Create a Message Stream device, configure it (Img 1)
  • Now you can access values coming in each line via device properties (Img 2)
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