Escient FireBall Media Management system user manual Serial COM Ports

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SERIAL COM PORTS

The Serial Control COM Port setting is used to enable RS-232 serial control for two-way external control communications with a third party control systems.

If there are no available COM ports, you must use the Ethernet based external control for two-way external control communications.

Follow these steps to enable or disable the Serial Control Port:

1.Press the Setup key on the remote to display the FireBall setup menu.

2.Select the External Control menu item.

3.Select the IR & Serial menu

4.Select the Serial Control COM Port menu item.

5.Select DISABLE or COM1 for external control.

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