LOOP packet requests?

[prodata]

Anyone know how many LOOP packets CMX requests at a time? I thought it might be just one but seeing something that suggesting it might be eg 20 (edit: no, more than that - 50?). ICBW about this - just trying to make sense of an observation!

[PaulMy]

The LOOP packet is not something I understand well, but this is a regular in my MXdiags

2019-07-15 08:46:22.652 Sending command: LPS 2 1, attempt 1
2019-07-15 08:46:23.653 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:46:23.653 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:46:23.653 ACK received
2019-07-15 08:46:23.653 10-min gust from loop2: 6.4
2019-07-15 08:46:23.653 Sending command: LOOP 50, attempt 1
2019-07-15 08:46:24.654 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:46:24.654 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:46:24.654 ACK received
2019-07-15 08:47:01.621 Periodic disconnect from logger
2019-07-15 08:47:21.624 Attempting reconnect to logger
2019-07-15 08:47:21.624 TCP Logger Connect attempt 1
2019-07-15 08:47:25.638 TCP Logger reconnected
2019-07-15 08:47:25.638 Sending command: LPS 2 1, attempt 1
2019-07-15 08:47:26.640 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:47:26.640 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:47:26.640 ACK received
2019-07-15 08:47:26.640 10-min gust from loop2: 6.4
2019-07-15 08:47:26.640 Sending command: LOOP 50, attempt 1
2019-07-15 08:47:27.641 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:47:27.641 Wait for ACK
2019-07-15 08:47:27.641 ACK received

Enjoy,
Paul

[prodata]

OK, thanks. I didn't think to look in the DIAGS. But leaving the LOOP2 stuff to one side, that looks like it's requesting 50 LOOPs at a time.

What's slightly curious is doing this every (I think) 63 seconds or so - that looks to be asking for roughly twice as many LOOPs as are actually available in that time (Davis suggest that a new LOOP is available every 2 seconds, but no more often than that). Not that it matters I guess - it obviously works.

Anyway, thanks. That explains what I was seeing.

[mcrossley]

It requests 50, but every minute it sends other commands that terminate the loop processing, then requests another 50 etc. I guess Steve requested 50 so it would never run out