HMS Anybus Edge Reference Manual page 83

Settings
Fig. 16 Scheduling example
Limits
You can define up to eight time switches. Time Switches with the same name are not allowed.
Messages
Your Edge gateway is capable of sending and receiving messages. Messages can be transmitted
via various channels. The available channels depend on the concrete configuration of your device.
Send Messages
In this section you can configure up to 25 messages that can be sent. For each message you can
configure the following parameters:
Active
Channel
Recipient/Topic
Text
Receive Messages
In this section you can configure up to 25 messages that can be received. If a message with the
defined text is received from the respective Sender/Topic, the corresponding receive message
unit will be triggered in your diagram. Note that receive messages will not be checked if the
corresponding receive message unit is not used inside your diagram. For each message you can
configure the following parameters:
Active
Channel
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Note that the time switches use the local system time.
Through this check box the message can be activated or deactivated respectively.
Channel through which the message should be sent
For short messages (SMS): Recipient's phone number composed of an optional leading + and up to
30 numerical digits (e.g. +491701234567) For MQTT: Topic to which the message should be sent
Message text
For short messages (SMS): Only up to 160 ASCII characters (Latin characters, numbers, punctuation
characters, no umlauts etc.) are allowed. If, after replacing all references, the message text is longer,
it will be cut. A counter that is shown below the message text input field will show you the number
of plain characters and references in your message text.
References
You can add references to variables, inputs or outputs to the text. Before a message is sent, the
references will be replaced by the actual values. The references start and end with a percentage sign.
Between the percentage signs there must be either the name of a variable or the
word input or output followed by the respective interface, device, value and optionally array index,
separated by commas. For example %portalvar3% references the variable portalvar3. %
input0,1,2% references the input at interface 0, device 1, value 2. Invalid references will not be
replaced. You can also - much more conveniently - insert references via two menu buttons that will
show up in the message editing dialog.
To insert a plain percentage sign into a message, type two consecutive percentage signs.
Through this check box the message can be activated or deactivated respectively.
Channel through which the message should be received
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