I have several machines with Geo Brick drives where I need to collect register data near real time. Currently the PC running custom HMI is connected to the drive over USB. I can't seem to find a definite answer in the docs (yet), so I thought to ask it here.
Can I create a separate .NET 3.5 application on the same PC and create a secondary connection, through PCommServer, for my purposes to the same drive?
Can I make an ethernet connection while USB connection is in use? If so, is this a straight ASCII exchange or do I need to go through PCommServer libraries?
Finally, does the RS232 serial port support straight ASCII command-response exchange, without additional libraries (so that I could run my code on a Linux box)?
Thank You
Chris