{"id":3386,"date":"2019-02-12T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/usage-help-manual\/17-i-o-systems\/ao_specs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:57:52","slug":"ao_specs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/14-i-o-systems\/ao_specs\/","title":{"rendered":"ao_specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Purpose:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Process analog output specifications from a file, creating or updating variables and sending configurations to the system.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Enter:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ao_specs<\/strong> [analog_output_spec_file] [add]<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Where:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>analog_output_spec_file<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Optional. Specify the analog output specification filename. The default is ao_specs.nnn based on cell name.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>add<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Optional unless analog_output_spec_file is specified. Specify a string to add specifications to existing ones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ao_specs<\/strong><br \/>\nThe above command processes the file ao_specs.nnn\u00a0for analog output at test cell nnn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ao_specs<\/strong> \/specs\/cell_ao\u00a0 add<br \/>\nThe above command adds\u00a0the ao specifications in the file \/specs\/cell_ao\u00a0to the existing specifications in memory.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Real variables in the specification file are created unless quoted, in which case they must exist.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid overlapping hardware channels with control specifications and use errs to check for errors.<\/p>\n<p>Channels can be added via PNP by modifying \/specs\/pnp\/output_specs_pnp.<\/p>\n<p>The ao_specs command processes the analog inputs within the specified analog outputs specification file.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><a href=\"\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/16-smart-instrument-interfaces\/pnp\/\">pnp<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/11-utilities-and-user-commands\/errs\/\">errs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: Process analog output specifications from a file, creating or updating variables and sending configurations to the system. Enter: ao_specs [analog_output_spec_file] [add] Where: analog_output_spec_file Optional. Specify the analog output specification filename. The default is ao_specs.nnn based on cell name. add Optional unless analog_output_spec_file is specified. Specify a string to add specifications to existing ones.\u00a0\u00a0 Example: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":1964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3386\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}