A customer had an Int32 from a PAC Controller that was bit-packed with pump status.
Each bit of the variable was a pump on/off status that he wanted to show on an LED in groov.
(I have added bit select for the binary gadgets to the groov feature request list).
Granted, you are more likely to see this issue with a PLC than a PAC, but he wanted to get the data into groov without having to do a download via PAC Control (and do the unpack in the strategy - at the expense of extra tag names as well).
As it happens this customer was running groov on an AR1 and so had Node-RED running in the background.
Simple matter then for him to bring the Int32 into Node-RED via a PAC Node, unpack the bits and then connect them to a groov Data Store and then connect the LED gadgets to the Data Store Tags.
Figured the code was worthy enough to post here.
(Many many thanks to @mstjohn for the Function Node code - my first attempts were, ah… buggy…)
Here is what it looks like;
I hope its pretty clear. I put the test nodes in there so you can import the flow and test it out.
The debug nodes will show the binary result for the Int32.
As per the comment nodes, just swap out the input and output test nodes for your Nodes and you should be up and running.
We figured 8 bit would cover most people, but feel free to expand the code as required.
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Imported fine