Applies To:
  • CitectSCADA 3.xx, 4.xx
Summary:
I must use the Optomux Data Types IOC# or CIO$* upon start-up to configure each of the modules in my dept's system. The problem now is how do I employ these commands? Do I create a Variable Tag for each separate command for each address on each IO device? The "Optomux Commands" help file states "You can issue commands to your Optomux controllers, either

within a Cicode function, or in a keyboard command" which implies to me that I can directly issue these Optomux commands to the IO Device via some Cicode function, but the closest function I can find for this is IODeviceControl() which isn't quite it.

Anyway, would it be possible to give an example of how to implement the IOC#

and CIO$* commands in Citect, preferably using Cicode?

 

Solution:
The Optomux data types IOC# or CIO$* basically do the same thing except using CIO$* is a much more efficient when configuring. The description for these 2 data types is below:

CIO$*

Digital G Configure All Input/Output. Address bit 0/1 is Input/Output.
IOC# Digital j H/I Input/Output Configuration. Value 0/1 is Input/Output

Where
# Module number. 0 to 15.
* Bit mask of modules.

As you can see IOC# configures individual modules at a time (0 to 15) whereas CIO$* configures all the modules in one go. e.g Lets say you wanted to change all modules to outputs. Firstly you will need to configure a variable tag for each address.

Variable tag : IOC0
Data Type : DIGITAL
IO Device : IODev1
Address : IOC0

You will need to do the same for IOC1..IOC15.

To set each module to an output (in cicode say) you will need to set

IOC0=1;
IOC1=1;
etc

IOC15=1;

The exact same thing can be achieved using CIO$* by configuring one tag

Variable tag : AllOutputs
Data Type : DIGITAL
IO Device : IODev1
Address : CIO$FFFF

Where FFFF is the bit mask for the modules. In order for this to done in cicode you will need to assign an arbitrary value to this tag. E.g

AllOutputs=1;

Although I have assigned AllOutputs=1, Citect does not actually read the value assigned to it, just the fact that you have assigned something. You have already set all the modules to outputs via the "FFFF" in the address.

Just to clarify the addressing with on last example. Lets set positions 7, 8, 9 and 10 to be output and set the other positions to be input. The format for the address will be

0000 0111 1000 0000

where the '1' refer to the output. Hence when converted to Hexadecimal we get 0780. So the tag will be CI0$780 = 0.

 
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