Extron electronic IPL T S Series Advanced Serial Port Control, Serial pass-through redirect mode

Communication and Control, cont’d

	Characters	Hex	Dec
$	Dollar	24	36
&	Ampersand	26	38
+	Plus	2B	43
,	Comma	2C	44
/	Forward slash / virgule	2F	47
:	Colon	3A	58
;	Semi-colon	3B	59
=	Equal	3D	61
?	Question mark	3F	63
@	“At” symbol	40	64

Unsafe characters

URLs use some characters for “special use” in defining their syntax and should be encoded. For various reasons, these characters present the possibility of being misunderstood within a URL, and are therefore considered “unsafe”.

The table below lists unsafe characters.

	Characters	Hex	Dec
	Space	20	32
" "	Quotation marks	22	34
<	“Less than” symbol	3C	60
>	“Greater than” symbol	3E	62
#	Pound	23	35
%	Percent	25	37
Miscellaneous characters
{	Left curly brace	7B	123
}	Right curly brace	7D	125
	Vertical bar / pipe	7C	124
\	Backslash	5C	92
^	Caret	5E	94
~	Tilde	7E	126
[	Left square bracket	5B	91
]	Right square bracket	5D	93
`	Grave accent	60	96

Advanced Serial Port Control

If serial setup configurations are required, the following options provide advanced methods for communicating serially with the interface: serial pass-through (or redirect mode), direct port access, and serial bridging.

Serial pass-through (redirect mode)

Serial pass-through allows serial commands from a controller to “pass through” an IPL T S interface on route to an A/V device, as shown in the following figure.

Any serial port on an IPL T S interface can be configured as a pass-through connection to another serial port on the same device.

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