dontz125 wrote:Slight side bar - I noticed while rummaging around on the IOx page this comment, "It should be noted that at this time all the spare ports are either on the MS2 or on the I/O Extender. It is not possible to have a mix of MS2 and I/O Extender spare port configuration." Is this still true? I ask because you can set both the local and remote spare pins in an MS2 msq without anything greying out or otherwise yelling at you.
That must have been quite an old message. If I remember correctly, the very first implementation I did for using the IOx outputs as spare ports used the same variables as the original spare ports so you could either use MS2 port or IOx ports. But that was changed to use dedicated variables for the remote spare ports. So that's no longer true and both are independent and can be used at the same time.
And now with the latest IOx firmware, you have a third option which is to use the IOx programmable on/off output ports feature which is also independent but can use data from the MS2 or MS3 or IOx (or any other MS-compatible device connected to the CAN bus) to set an IOx digital output port. And you can have up to 3 conditions per output.
Jean