Now, having never interfaced LAN to anything before - and particularly with Flowcode (FC10), I'm getting a little tied up trying to establish exactly how and when to invoke the various networking component functions.
I have already bound NetworkComms to TCP-IP-W5500, initialised them both in the flow, and opened an initial socket, and I can successfully ping the W5500 so SPI (etc) is good, but then things get a bit... 'fuzzy'...
Listen, Connect, Socket Open/Close, Accept Open/Close, etc..etc..
Fundamentally, the task is to send short strings (i.e. "commands") from a networked PC that replicate pre-existing UART commands, so that once each command is received via network then it can be channelled to the existing custom command interpreter in Flowcode. A reply will then be returned to the networked PC, in the same way as already done via UART. The IP address of the remote PC can also dynamically change so must be handled as-well (which I presume is handled automatically by the TCP-IP stack on the W5500 chip, without FC intervention?).
Per usual, precious little time to study protocols and experiment with Flowcode, so really just wanting to ask if anyone could point me in the right direction to an example project possibly similar to what I aim to achieve? Just something to get me off the starting block as a good point of reference to work from
Many thanks in advance,
Brendan