our dmx controller dac quad supplied by gilder fluke has RS232 serial port on it. The manufacturer is saying that our controller will accept and respond to serial port commands.

Now this system has to be interfaced to a profibus so that it can be monitored through scada. Should they have to run hyperterminal/terminal software in their scada software or they can do it through some other way?

the manufacturer is saying as this:

The serial port commands start on page 47 of the DAC-QUAD Manual.

You can talk to the DAC-QUAD from any device that has an Rs-232 serial port on it.

The commands are all standard ASCII characters. They can be typed form a keyboard.

To select a show, you send the DAC-QUAD a * (0x2A), followed by the ASCII HEXadecimal number of the show you would like the DAC-QUADto play (“00” to “FF’).

To tell the DAC-QUAD to start playing the show, you send it a loop command “ (0x22)

To query the status of the DAC-QUAD, send it a ‘i00’ (0x69 0x30 0x30)

from the scada how this commands can be sent.

please help.

 

We resell ICC gateway which can acts as PROFIBUS slave and DMX master.
We have some customers who use it with good results.

Other ways it is ETH-1000 of ICC, which is MODBUS TCP server, DMX master.

This is easier to connect to SCADA.

Kind Regards
Luca

 

Does the DMX controller need to be interfaced with only via the ASCII port? If it can be interacted with directly via DMX instead, then the PBDP-1000 gateway can be a DMX master or slave while exposing the DMX data to PROFIBUS.

http://www.iccdesigns.com/products/millennium/pbdp-1000.html

Even if the controller doesn't have an additional DMX port, one thing that can be done is connect the PBDP-1000 as a slave on the existing DMX network, and have it consume all the existing channels (from 1..512). As DMX is a unidirectional network, all devices are essentially "sniffing" the network continuously, and the PBDP-1000 would therefore be able to consume all of the channels being written on the network.

This addition would require no changes to the existing DMX network (other than adding one additional drop), and the PROFIBUS network would have direct access to all of the DMX channel data as it is sent from the controller to the slave devices in real-time.

Darrin