A TCP Barcode reader driver for Ignition SCADA Event Streams Module. Adds a TCP listener for barcodes into an Ignition Gateway and sends the received barcodes to Event Streams as a payload.
- Install the module (.modl) from the releases.
- Restart the gateway
- Add an event stream with "Barcode Stream Source" as the event source
- Input a port number to listen on (Must be above 1000)
- Set the "Encoder" settings to "String"
- Save the event stream
- Open the firewall on your server on that port number (TCP)
- Test the listener by sending a barcode to the port.
event.data will contain the raw ASCII string transmitted.
event.metadata will contain the follosing structure:
{
sourceIp: <IP address of sender>
timestamp: <Epoch timestamp in millis>
}