Micro Epsilon confocal rangefinder

Micro-epsilon confocal range finder

IOC Name: MECFRF

This device is used on CRISP to measure distances. It is an ethernet device. It has an IP address assigned by DHCP, but only after is explicitly told to do so. If the device is power cycled you will need to tell it to reacquire an address.

Protocols

The manual specifies several different protocols on several buses (RS485, Ethernet, EtherCAT). The protocol we are using is documented in the manufacturer manual under a section called "Measurement Data Transmission to a Server via Ethernet"

It streams data continuously rather than having an explicit read command.