Control flex sim through scripts remotely

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Roger W asked Aug 29 2017 at 8:20 AM Chaoqing X commented Aug 14 2019 at 5:44 AM

Control flex sim through scripts remotely

I am trying to create an external interface where we can control the input of the model real time from different computers. For example, someone can close/open the input of a processor while the simulation is running and see real time changes to the model from another other computer. Any idea how this can be done?

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.1.2

remote control

demo.fsm (33.1 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-29T09:05:43Z

Mischa Spelt answered Aug 29 2017 at 9:05 AM Chaoqing X commented Aug 14 2019 at 5:44 AM

Hi Roger,

One way would be to set up a TCP/IP connection to control the model and implement a simple protocol yourself. We developed our own module to do this really asynchronously, but FlexSim has some built-in functions (look up serveraccept and related functions in the manual) that should get you started.

There are also some quite detailed answers like this one and this one that may be relevant.

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Answer 2 · 2017-08-29T09:09:24Z

Steven Hamoen answered Aug 29 2017 at 9:09 AM Roger W commented Aug 29 2017 at 9:15 AM

@Roger W The 3 solutions that come to mind are 1. use sockets 2. use the flexsim webserver 3. create your own solution by using creating a c++ dll

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