Serial over Ethernet
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We have a remote electricity meter device with a serial to Ethernet converter; I want to catch the data from this meter on a PC using C#. I have a fairly good understanding of the COM port and how to parse a data stream (have done my bit in VB6) in C#, but I have no way how to do it from Ethernet. I do not want to send any data back - it is read only. Any guidance would be welcome. Thanks
"the confused are confused beyond confusion" - Pik Botha (1990)
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We have a remote electricity meter device with a serial to Ethernet converter; I want to catch the data from this meter on a PC using C#. I have a fairly good understanding of the COM port and how to parse a data stream (have done my bit in VB6) in C#, but I have no way how to do it from Ethernet. I do not want to send any data back - it is read only. Any guidance would be welcome. Thanks
"the confused are confused beyond confusion" - Pik Botha (1990)
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We have a remote electricity meter device with a serial to Ethernet converter; I want to catch the data from this meter on a PC using C#. I have a fairly good understanding of the COM port and how to parse a data stream (have done my bit in VB6) in C#, but I have no way how to do it from Ethernet. I do not want to send any data back - it is read only. Any guidance would be welcome. Thanks
"the confused are confused beyond confusion" - Pik Botha (1990)
pierrecor wrote:
We have a remote electricity meter device with a serial to Ethernet converter
Several steps - first you need to refine exactly what "ethernet connector" means. That by itself doesn't tell you what functionality is available, how to access it nor anything at all about the protocol. Second presuming that it really means some sort of IP then you would need to learn about UDP and TCP (which ever is relevant) and the appropriate conventions in C# to access each.
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We have a remote electricity meter device with a serial to Ethernet converter; I want to catch the data from this meter on a PC using C#. I have a fairly good understanding of the COM port and how to parse a data stream (have done my bit in VB6) in C#, but I have no way how to do it from Ethernet. I do not want to send any data back - it is read only. Any guidance would be welcome. Thanks
"the confused are confused beyond confusion" - Pik Botha (1990)
Is it a Current Cost meter? If so, it's not an Ethernet connection, even though the socket on the meter is an RJ45. It's actually an RS232 serial connection through an RJ45 to USB cable, with a "serial to USB" driver needed on the PC. Then you talk to it like a normal COM port.