Apologies if my question is not thoroughly written enough I am very new to this software.
I have a Sturtevant Richmont torque wrench controller that I need to get approval through my company's IT department to use with Node Red. The controller has an IP address which has been set by the IT department and I know which port it transmits TCP data on
I need to send a firewall change request to my company asking them to open up the connection between my computer running Node Red and the controller. I simply had them open up the connection between controllerIP:port and the IP address I find when I type ipconfig into my command prompt. This seems to not be working. Do I need to use a different IP address for myself in order to connect with TCP using Node Red?
In the past, another colleague managed to look at the controller's value via TCP by opening up the IP address they were using and the IP address:port of the controller but they were not using Node-Red. As far as I'm aware I don't need any other requirements to connect.
Is the firewall setting I requested enough to be able to use TCP in Node Red as far as you know?
The device sends TCP data. I'm trying to open the controllers TCP port to a more general network IP address across the site to see if that solves the problem.
You mean it just sends it, the client doesn't need to request it? If so then did the IT department realise that they had to allow the device to send and the PC must be allowed to listen on that port, to receive data from the device.
When you said that
they might have assumed that the controller is listening on that port rather than sending. Whereas what you now describe is your PC listening on that port.
You have not shown us how you have configured the TCP node.
Sorry I used bad language. I meant opening up the firewall between the IP address of the controller and the IP address of the computer they were using. I found out my IT department hasn't actually opened up the TCP firewall, I was told it was opened but it's not, so this might all be crying wolf. Once the firewall TCP connection is officially opened I will get back to you.