Each device has an identifier that allows to recognize it’s kind and should be unique.
A qualifier is composed of 2 bytes and therefore a number from 0 to 65535.
It can be set using the uqcommand.
You can also display this number as 2 bytes and therefore as 2 ascii code.
In the case of the bioreactor the first ascii code is $.
You may for example give the following code to the bioreactor
Each code will correspond to a database name so that is really needs to be unique !
You may convert from the 2 letters code to a number using the following javascript code (you may use it in the browser console.
’$’.charCodeAt(0)*256+’A’.charCodeAt(0)
In the logs this ID will appear as hexa decimal code. You may convert from deciaml to hexadecimal in javascript using the following code:
Number(9281).toString(16)