Hi, Terry,
Is the comment you made here: https://forum.mango-os.com/topic/4691/virtual-serial-client/24 still valid? This seems like the exact situation we have.
This device is a black box, and cannot connect to our IP:port, we have to open a socket to it and just listen to capture packets that it sends out. Based on your note, it sounds like using a Virtual Serial Client with a Serial data source won't work.
If that's the case, is the only real solution to create some middleware/applet that connects to the host and reads the data, then pass it along to Mango in a way it can read?
We thought that if the device passes data every 6 seconds, and we use a TCP/IP Data Source to poll it every 3 seconds, we'd be guaranteed to get all of the packets, but that actually made the results worse, and we got fewer packets than when we had it polling every 6.3 seconds. (Don't know why adding the 0.3 seconds makes a difference, but it definitely does.)
Thanks,
Chad