Filling Device Labels to 32 chars is an error? - E1.20 RDM (Remote Device Management) Protocol Forums

Simon Aspland · May 4th, 2013

If I understand correctly, your device is changing the label it receives in a set command, and padding it out to 32 characters with spaces?

This would cause an issue in the Responder tests as it will be checking that it gets the same label from the device that it set it to.
To the Responder tests, the label with extra spaces wouldn't match what it sent, and it would assume the device is not storing it correctly.

As someone programming a controller I'd rather have the label returned unchanged, as extra spaces on the end would mess up the display of the label for me.

If other controller manufacturers are having issues with displaying labels less than 32 characters long, it might be worth contacting them to ask them to sort that out.

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May 4th, 2013	#3
Simon Aspland Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 1	If I understand correctly, your device is changing the label it receives in a set command, and padding it out to 32 characters with spaces? This would cause an issue in the Responder tests as it will be checking that it gets the same label from the device that it set it to. To the Responder tests, the label with extra spaces wouldn't match what it sent, and it would assume the device is not storing it correctly. As someone programming a controller I'd rather have the label returned unchanged, as extra spaces on the end would mess up the display of the label for me. If other controller manufacturers are having issues with displaying labels less than 32 characters long, it might be worth contacting them to ask them to sort that out.