Each device to be interfaced with Rx-Universe requires a connection between the device and Rx-Universe. This connection can either be serial (using an RS232 connection), or though TCP/IP. If a device supports both, TCP/IP is preferred, as it is faster and does not require a dedicated RS232 port to be used.
Installing a Serial Device
Installing A New Serial Devices Workstation
If setting up a device interface on a new workstation, you can browse to the install files on the Rx-Universe server. The install file for a device workstation is found (assuming default folders were used to install Rx-Universe) under "RxUniverse\Install\Devices\setup.exe". Browse to that folder from the workstation, and run the setup.exe program. Follow the prompts and an Rx-Universe Device session will be set up on the computer.
The default workstation number is 44 for a device session. If you are setting up the second, third, or more, device computer, you will need to change the workstation number (since 44 would be used by the first computer set up). Just modify the properties of the icon:
In the example above, the workstation is 45 (the last 2 characters at the end of the target line).
Installing A New TCP/IP Devices Workstation
The device must point to the IP address of the computer running the Rx-Universe TCP/IP device session.
Each TCP/IP device session can service up to 40 connections (devices). You can only have one TCP/IP device session running per computer, but you can have more than one computer running a TCP/IP device session. You can also combine a TCP/IP device session with one or more serial device sessions on the same computer.