stable identification of recycle cassettes

Support for the Milan Intelligent interface, sold by Money Controls as the Paylink USB unit and for the earlier PCI card version.

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tcubells
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stable identification of recycle cassettes

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Hello everyone

My setup uses two iPro (ID-003) on paylink, one on interface 1 (header 7 pins) and the other on interface 2 (RJ-45).


Each iPro is configured to recycle different denominations, iPro(1) RC1= 5€, RC2= 10€ and iPro(2) RC1= 20€, RC2= 50€.

If for any reason, or by mistake, I reset the paylink, or there is an exchange of the iPro acceptor head, the numbers and values assigned by the interface to the recyclers may change sequence number, (Ex. 1,2,3,4 or 0,1,2,3 or 3,4,1,2). I experiment with these situations to try to reproduce possible end-user manipulations.

Faced with possible changes, I need to keep the four recyclers identified and my question is:

What field to use to identify a recycler and its associated value in the event of any change?

DispenserBlock.m_UnitAddress?

Sequence number?

Associated value?



Regards
davebush
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Re: stable identification of recycle cassettes

Post by davebush »

Hi,

This is from reading the code, you'll have to check that the software behave this way.

From the code, the DispenserBlock.InterfaceNumber should be correct and match the corresponding AcceptorBlock.InterfaceNumber for the same iPro.

Within the iPro unit the two boxes should be identified as UnitAddress 1 & 2.

If you experiment and find this is not what happens then it looks as though that would be a program bug!

Regards

Dave
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