Configuring a Radio on the Advanced Trio Diagnostics Driver
Much of the functionality and configuration that applies to Trio Radio Sets and Trio Radio database items is identical to that of Outstation Sets and Outstation database items in other Geo SCADA Expert drivers. The core and generic Geo SCADA Expert driver documentation uses the term 'outstation' to refer to devices such as outstations, data loggers, and radios from which Geo SCADA Expert can retrieve data or control values. As such, you will come across the term 'outstation' rather than 'radio' in core topics and topics that are common to multiple drivers.
With the Advanced Trio Diagnostics driver, you use an Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio to represent a Trio radio from which Geo SCADA Expert is to retrieve diagnostics data or send controls.
With a hot-standby radio setup, the number of radio database items that you require varies, depending on the radio series. You require 1 radio database item to represent a D Series hot-standby radio, and 2 radio database items to represent a hot-standby radio setup with the other supported series of Trio radios (see Retrieve Data from a Hot-Standby Radio).
You configure the radio in the database by using the fields on the Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio Form. The Form includes a number of tabs.
You use the fields on the Radio tab to:
- Specify the Model and Type of Radio Unit
- Specify the Serial Number of the Radio Unit
- Specify the Serial Number of the Second Base Radio in a Hot-Standby Pair (D Series radios only)
- Specify the Stream Identifier that Prefixes Messages Sent to and from the Radio
- Define the Data Polling Intervals.
The other tabs on the Form, and the properties on those tabs. are common to outstations on many drivers (see Tabs on Outstation Forms in the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Advanced Drivers).
Further Information
Configuring an Outstation in the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Advanced Drivers. (A Trio Radio has properties that are common to Direct outstations.)