Utilities and Libraries

WebBrick Status Library

andy.harris — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:30:19 GMT

This Library retrieves status from current WebBricks, all outputs and inputs

WebBrick Commands Library

andy.harris — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:28:23 GMT

This Python Library implements the current command set for WebBricks

WebBrickMon - standalone webbrick event capture for windows

lawrence.klyne — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:25 GMT

This is an updated version of WebBrickMon that can also write the events to a log file. Note the name of this log file is fixed 'WebBrickMon.log', it is written to the current working directory of WebBrickMon when it is started. ANY existing log file is overwritten when Open is selected. As usual this is a test tool.

Visio report for creating cable schedules

andy.harris — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:58:28 GMT

Overview

Visio can report on the attributes of assets contained withing a drawing. The report is designed to work on multipage Visio files.

Sorting

Current the sorting priorities are:

Room
CableID
CableTECH

Running the report

Browse to the directory containing this report. Allow multiple pages and select HTML as the output

Gotchas

You'll find that any object that you've added and deleted from the drawing turns up in the report as a blank item. You can just edit the HTML output to remove them. I guess there is a way of 'purging' in Visio but I'm yet to find it!

Visio Symbols for cable schedules

andy.harris — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:49:35 GMT

Overview

Visio is a popular package for putting together cabling diagrams for customer communication. With a little effort, these diagrams can be turned into working schedules. Alistair and Simon sent me some of their drawings and from this I was able to see some common themes and usage.

Symbols

One of the main changes I made was to go through various ISO and IEC standards to work out the most 'standards based' symbols to use.

Attributes

The symbols here have attributes that are appropriate for WebBrick installations, here are some typical example:

CableID
CableTECH
Room
Position
Notes
SwitchTECH
LampTECH
WBConn
WBConnDI
WBConnMI

To reduce typing, some of these attributes have been made into fixed lists. By filling in these attributes as you place objects on the drawing it is possible to use a 'report' to extract a cable schedule. Look for the H2M8 cable schedule report.

Gotchas

If you add then delete an object in a Visio drawing then the object 'hangs around'. Therefore when you run a report you'll get some objects with blank attributes. You can just edit them out of the report. In the meantime I'll try to find out how to purge these objects