Introduction

When communicating with a serial device, a DataMiner Agent will send commands to the device and the latter will reply with a response for each command.

Note

• Devices supporting serial communication often implement a proprietary, vendor-specific serial communication protocol. However, public standardized protocols are also possible (e.g. Modbus).
• Serial devices cannot send unsolicited messages to a DataMiner Agent; devices only send responses to commands sent by DataMiner.

The communication will occur over TCP/IP, UDP, or, less commonly, over a serial cable.

Note

It is possible to create a serial simulation using an element stream or DataMiner simulation file as input for our Skyline Serial Simulator protocol.

DataMiner supports serial communication, allowing protocols to define one or more connections of type "serial". DataMiner runs a process called "SLPort", which takes care of all communication to and from devices connected to either a serial port or an IP port.