Recorder Objects
Introduction
A Recorder object provides a mechanism to collect and buffer any data in the controller's memory. After a recorder is configured and started, the controller copies the data from the specified addresses to a local buffer every "N" samples. Later, the host can collect the data by polling or via interrupt-based events.
The controller supports up to 64 data recorders, which can collect data from up to a total of 64 addresses. The buffers can be dynamically allocated. A larger data recorder buffer may be required for higher sample rates, slow host computers, when running via client/server, or when a large number of data fields are being recorded.
A recorder can be started or stopped from the host application or from the controller by configuring a data recorder trigger. When the trigger conditions are met, the controller will automatically start or stop a data recorder. This is very useful for logging relevant variables during the period preceding a fault or error. Normally, the recorder stops collecting data when the buffer is full. It can also be configured to continuously collect data, overwriting the previous data until it is commanded to stop. This is useful for trapping a recent history of controller data.
When using data recorders, make sure to enable enough recorder objects and buffer memory with mpiControlConfigSet. Then, configure the recorders with mpiRecorderRecordConfig or mpiRecorderConfigSet, and start recording with mpiRecorderStart. Data can then be collected with mpiRecorderRecordGet.
It is possible to create a recorder object and not delete it, leaving the resources for the recorder occupied, but forgotten about (abandoned). It is most common to run into this situation when using an index of -1 for the recorder. When developing a program and running it in the debugger, it is common for the developer to exit the program without letting the program clean up its recorder resources. To see how to handle this situation programmatically, please see recorderinuse.c.
See Also:
Buffer Size
| Error Messages |
Methods
| Create, Delete, Validate Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderCreate | Create Recorder object | |
| mpiRecorderDelete | Delete Recorder object | |
| mpiRecorderValidate | Validate Recorder object | |
| Configuration and Information Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderConfigGet | Get Recorder's configuration | |
| mpiRecorderConfigSet | Set Recorder's configuration | |
| mpiRecorderRecordConfig | Configure type of data record that Recorder will capture | |
| mpiRecorderStatus | Get status of Recorder | |
| Event Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderEventNotifyGet | Get event mask of events for which host notification has been requested | |
| mpiRecorderEventNotifySet | Set event mask of events for which host notification will be requested | |
| mpiRecorderEventReset | Reset the events specified in event mask that are generated by Recorder | |
| Action Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderRecordGet | Get data records from Recorder | |
| mpiRecorderStart | Start recording data records using Recorder | |
| mpiRecorderStop | Stop recording data records using Recorder | |
| Memory Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderMemory | Get address to Recorder's memory | |
| mpiRecorderMemoryGet | Copy data from Recorder memory to application memory | |
| mpiRecorderMemorySet | Copy data from application memory to Recorder memory | |
| Relational Methods | ||
| mpiRecorderControl | Return handle of Control object associated with Recorder | |
| mpiRecorderNumber | ||
Data Types
Constants
| MPIRecorderADDRESS_COUNT_MAX | ||
| MPIRecorderMAX_AXIS_RECORDS | ||
| MPIRecorderMAX_FILTER_RECORDS |