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PROGRAMMING

TCP/IP

Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “REGISTER SELECT” and press “Set”. The REGIS- TER SELECT menu will appear:

GENERIC TCPIP ADDRESSABLE VSI AD4323

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BEETLE/50 PRINTERS CASIO QT2100 REM DISPLAY CASIO QT6000

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Figure 11: REGISTER SELECT

Sub-Menu

Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “TCPIP” and press “Generic”. In this mode is simply no filtering of the input data and will display any printable character in the video. If you are not sure of what you are connecting to this is the first selection so you will see everything and then later choose the options you want to better filter the display to your liking.

1.Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “TCPIP” and press “Set” to enter and change the IP address to the same as the IP address you wish to monitor.

EXAMPLE: If the IP address is 192.168.0.141, set the address on the TCPIP 232 Adapter using this menu.

IP ADDRESS		192
IP ADDRESS	2	168
IP ADDRESS	3	0
IP ADDRESS	4	141

DOWNLOAD CONFIGURATION

EXIT

Figure 12: TCPIP Sub-Menu

2.Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “Download Configuration” and press “Set” to execute. Make sure a TCPIP232 Adapter is connected and the VSI-Pro will download the IP settings to this device.

3.Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “EXIT” and press “Set” to return to the previous menu.

Refer to Appendix I for additional information on the TCPIP232 Adapter or the manual included with the adapter.

NOTE: The TCPIP232 Adapter can be programmed by this method or by using a standard PC with a serial cable along with the AVE IP setting software. Refer to the TCIP232 Adpater Manual for doing this.

Once you have set the IP address of the TCPIP232 Adapter you will be in the “Generic” display mode. You may select another register driver to format this display. When you do this the VSI-Pro loads the default register baudrate as if a direct connection to the register so make sure you set the proper baudrate as described below.

The TCPIP232 Adpater communicates with the VSI- Pro via RS-232 at a baudrate of 19.2K. Therefore when you select this menu option the baudrate of the VSI-Pro is changed to this rate so communication for downloading the configuration can occur. When using the TCPIP232 adpater with other register drivers or data dump mode make sure you change the RXD baudrate to 19.2K so the VSI-Pro Max will communicate.

TCP/IP Limitations

The TCPIP232 Adapter can monitor any Ethernet LAN either 10MBs or 100MB/s. However the actual long term throughput of the adpater is limited to 5MB/s. This is more than enough for network printers for cash receipts, bar code scanners or single cash registers that operate in a “Live Mode”. Live Mode means the register transmitts the data on the net- work line by line or at the end of each transaction. Some cash registers have large local built in memo- ries for thousands of items and then only batch multiple transactions on the network at any given time or controlled by the server. Cash Registers utilizing this kind of batch processing are not suitable for security monitoring. Other devices that output large amounts of data will overrun the buffers of either the TCPIP232 Adapter or VSI-Pro Max and data will be lost and would not be suitable for secu- rity monitoring anyway.

The VSI-Pro Max has a set of powerful data dump modes that compatible with the TCPIP232 Adpater. If large data packets need filtering or special formats are required contact the factory.

VSI-Pro Max POS / Cash Register Interface