Tripping Optos with NexGen Generic UDP

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# Tripping Optos with NexGen Generic UDP 

The following will allow you to use simple UDP commands to trigger optos into NexGen.

First, add a "generic UDP" board to the CPU in the NexGen config window. Assign a port and a network adapter index. Then, create an input opto with the "generic UDP" type. Restart NexGen.

To determine which network address it's listening on, use ``netstat -a -o -n -b`` from an elevated command prompt window. Search for the port you assigned running under Coyote and verify it's the address you want. Increment the network adapters until it's the desired address.

Then, using a UDP client, send ``OPT:<opto index, starting at 1>`` to it. For example, to trip opto 1, send ``OPT:1``. If this doesn't work, try adding a null character to the end (it doesn't seem to clear out buffers).

There appear to be other command headers, ``TMP:``, ``LSZ:``, ``NSZ:``, ``OFF:``, and ``SBL:`` though I'm not sure what they do.