Writing day_profile_action.start_time using other types than time (27)

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By orim , 7 March, 2017
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Gurux.DLMS

Hi!

I'm having a bit of trouble with a meter that does not support certain time types (time, date-time etc.) it only supports octet-string as a time type.

This does not work (Gurux.DLMS):

0x02 : day_profile structure
0x03 : length
0x1b : start_time
0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 : start_time value
0x09 : script_logical_name
0x06 : length
0x00, 0x00, 0x0a, 0x00, 0x64, 0xff : script_logical_name value (0.0.10.0.10.255)
0x12 : script_selector
0x00, 0x00 : script_selector value

This works (custom implementation):

0x02 : day_profile structure
0x03 : length
0x09 : start_time, but this time as an octet-string
0x04 : length
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff : start_time value
0x09 : script_logical_name
0x06 : length
0x00, 0x00, 0x0a, 0x00, 0x64, 0xff : script_logical_name value (0.0.10.0.100.255)
0x12 <- Unsigned16 (script_selector) 0x00, 0x00 <- script_selector value

I could fix this and build my own Gurux dll file, but it would be nice to stick to the official releases.

How should I solve this? Should I build my own dll file or is there a way that you can add official support for different time types? I'm having this problem both in spec_day_entry and in day_profile_action.

orim

9 years 3 months ago

Wow, that was quick. :) Thanks!
Question: When the Blue Book states "time can be represented like an octet-string, as time, as date-time" etc., is it really correct just to pick ONE of these? Shouldn't the meter support ALL of the types?

Kurumi

9 years 3 months ago

Hi,

You can set Time like this:
GXDLMSSeasonProfile sp = new GXDLMSSeasonProfile();
sp.Start = new GXTime(DateTime.Now);

You can set DateTime like this:
GXDLMSSeasonProfile sp = new GXDLMSSeasonProfile();
sp.Start = DateTime.Now;

Most of meters are using Time and standard says that use time, but we are reading one meter type what is using DateTime.

BR,

Mikko