See also: I/O Components in the Xentara user manual

A channel element provides access to the communication channels of a specific fieldbus system running on a Hilscher cifX board and its input and output memory areas. Hilscher cifX communication channels’ memory areas can be mapped into Xentara data points using the channel’s children, data points and groups.

Accessing Channel Elements

See also: Accessing Xentara Elements in the Xentara user manual

Channel elements have the following members:

Attributes

key	The channel’s primary key.
name	The channel’s name. The name is the last component of the primary key.
UUID	The unique UUID of the channel.
type	The channel’s element type. For Hilscher cifX channels, this is always “cifX channel”.
category	The channel’s category. For Hilscher cifX channels, this is always “sub device”.
deviceState	The channels’s state as a boolean representing the connection state of the Channel.
connectionTime	The channels’s connection time.
error	The channels’s connection error if any.
channelId	The channel’s index on the Hilscher cifX board.
channelFirmwareName	The name of the firmware providing the communication channel.
channelFirmwareVersion	The version of the firmware providing the communication channel.

Automatically Generated Children

The channel automatically creates children of type memory area based on the memory location of its data points. Each memory area manages an input/output image of a Hilscher cifX communication channel memory area.