Scream can act as both a data Server and a data Client. Two pages of the network control window each control one aspect.
The server is responsible for acquiring data from local serial ports, and transmitting it to clients.
The client is responsible for requesting data from a server, receiving the data, and data recovery in the event of network losses.
Scream’s network capabilities can operate in two models, push or pull. In the push model, the Scream server actively transmits data to specified clients without request - Scream pushes the data to the client.
In the pull model, the Scream server will respond to requests from a client to send it data, the client pulls the data from scream.
All network operations use the same single common port number. This is set in the ‘Port used for all network communications’ option.