Hello,
I have recently acquired a demo torque tool from Ingersoll Rand and have been trying to integrate it with my Tulip apps to get torque value readouts for various QC checks on the manufacturing line. However, I am having trouble connecting the torque tool to Tulip and have been unable to get any sort of communication between them. The specific tool is an Ingersoll Rand Nutrunner which is connected to a workstation via USB. According to their sales rep this model is compatible with open protocol and can be used with Tulip.
I have looked at THIS LINK for some inspiration on setting this up. However, the video and most of the content there seems to deal with devices that would be connected via an edge device over the internet (thus the configuring with an IP address). We are trying to do direct USB wired connection to the PC running Tulip.
So far I have enabled the following drivers at the station
I have also setup a trigger in my test app as follows:
I am then reading out the variable Tightening data as text so it can be viewed in real time when running the app. However, despite having a programmed routine on the device and running it through some cycles I have not been able to get any readouts into Tulip. I am able to connect to the device via the INSIGHT Connect software which came with the device and get live readouts, so I feel pretty confident that the device is able to speak with my computer. I am just a bit lost on the Tulip side of things.
Does anyone have any information that might help with this?
Thank you,
