Denon DN-V210 manual Serial Remote Control DN-V310 only

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Serial Remote Control (DN-V310 only)

■Commands can be sent to the DVD player and the status requested and sent to the host via RS-232C.

This DVD player can be controlled by a PC. Connect the player and a serial port on the PC with a 9-pin RS-232C straight cable. To control this DVD player by a PC, set the RS- 232C switch on the rear panel to RS-232C.

■RS-232C Pin assignments (DVD player)

Pin no.	Signal
1	-
2	TXD
3	RXD
4	-
5	GND
6	-
7	CTS
8	RTS
9	-

■Communication conditions

Configure the serial port of the PC as shown below.

Bit Rate	9,600 bps
Data length	8 bits
Parity	none
Stop bit	1 bit
Flow control	None

■Basic format

•Command format

[group, command, parameter list]\r

•Response code format

0: No error

x: Error code x

Example 1:

Player receives : [PC, RC, 66]\r

Player sends : [PC, RC, 0]\r

When the external controller receives the response this implies that the player has verified the received message (syntax), and the command will be executed.

Example 2:

Player receives : [PC, PlayT, 16]\r

Player sends : [PC, PlayT, 2]\r

If an internal error occurs and the command cannot be executed, an error message (Error code 2 : Invalid parameter) will be send.

•Interval time

When transmitting commands consecutively, put more than 300 ms blank between commands.

■System commands

Communication between a DVD controller and the DVD player consist of 3 different types of information:

•External control commands

•External control status

•Asynchronous responses

The messages between the DVD and the DVD controller look like:

“[group, command, parameter list]\r”

A group, command and parameter-list between square- brackets, followed by a carriage return character (\r).

The parameter-list exists of comma separated parameters, and are case sensitive.

When the player receives a message from the external controller, it will be acknowledged. This acknowledgment will be done in 2 different ways.

For external control commands, the acknowledgment will

look like:
• Group	: group specified in the received message
	(PC)
• Command	: command specified in the received
	message

• Parameter-list : ReturnValue

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