22 | Appendices ~ Appendix C: Serial Commands |
Convention | Description |
<X> | Parameters enclosed in < > indicate a mandatory parameter. |
[X]Parameters enclosed in [ ] indicate an optional parameter.
Parameters separated by a - indicate a range between the values. | |
4,7,9 | Parameters separated by a , indicate a list of available values. |
EREF | Words in uppercase bold indicate command text. |
DEVICE | Indicates the device type and device number on the |
| network. It is composed of a device type number and a device |
| number. The device type for the AP10 is always 2 and the device |
| ID will always be |
| select all AP10 units). |
Command structure
Commands can be either UPPERCASE or lowercase. Also, extra spaces or tabs between arguments in text commands is allowed. Return values are always in uppercase. For a command to be recognized by the serial port, the command must be terminated by a carriage return.
The structure of serial commands is as follows: #DEVICE COMMAND [X] [X]
# | indicates the start of a command line |
DEVICE | represents the device type and device number |
COMMAND | is the command text |
[X] [X] | represents any additional options in the order that they appear in |
| the command descriptions that follow |
Example
A command to enable
For a command to be recognized by the serial port, it must be terminated by a carriage return.