Data Broadcasts

Professional Edition only. Data broadcasts are used for translating data tags (usually from other software)

Creating a Data broadcast

To create a Data broadcast, right click Bandwidth Monitor and navigate to 'Broadcasts'



From this broadcast manager, you may create, delete and modify broadcasts on your system.

Ensure that the 'Enable Broadcasts' option is enabled, and click 'New' to begin adding a new broadcast. Select Data from the types drop-down menu, and choose a port range to run the broadcast on.
Note: Bandwidth Monitor will open a maximum of 16 ports on all broadcasts combined.

Controlling broadcasts

You may limit each broadcast to a fixed number of clients by using the option labelled 'Limit broadcasts to'.

To ban an IP address or range of IP addresses from accessing your broadcasts, use the 'Deny Hosts' option on the broadcasts manager. Entries may be given as either IP addresses or resolved host names. Use the wildcard operator * to specify ranges of entries.

Data broadcasts work by running a server socket to listen for clients, and respond to various requests. Below is a list of currently supported protocol commands and their syntax, plus expected replies. This list may change over time:

ECHO

This command returns the given string (short strings expected) with any data tags translated correctly.

Example

(Client) ECHO %Times:Day%
(Server) ECHO :Tuesday