B&B Electronics ES1AE manual Using RealPort, Configuring the IP Address

Using RealPort

Chapter 8: Using RealPort

RealPort is a COM port redirector program that allows you to add and remove virtual COM ports on your PC and update the RealPort software.

Virtual COM ports allow you to set up a connection between your PC and the device connected to the serial port on your ES1A via an Ethernet network connection using TCP/IP. If you will be using virtual COM ports (configuring your serial port with the RealPort profile) you must use RealPort to configure those ports on your PC. Once you have configured a new virtual COM (VCOM) port using RealPort, application software can communicate through that COM port as if it is located within the PC.

There are three steps to setting up a virtual COM port with RealPort.

1.Configure the ES1A with an IP address

2.Configure the ES1A serial port for RealPort (VCOM) mode

3.Configure the port itself using RealPort

Configuring the IP Address

See Chapter 3, Configuring the IP Address

Configuring the Serial Port for RealPort

1.Login to the Web Configuration and Management Interface.

2.Select Configuration, Serial Port.

3.On the Serial Port Configuration page, check the Profile for the port. If it is not RealPort, click Port 1.

4.On the page that appears click Change Profile.

5.On the Select Port Profile page, select RealPort, then click Apply.

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