Command/response table for SIS commands (cont’d)

Command

ASCII Command

Response

Additional description

 

(host to switcher)

(switcher to host)

 

Firmware upload

 

 

 

Upload firmware

Esc

upload

See Loading firmware using and SIS command below.

Information requests

Information request

I

V

X1

X

X3

•A

X1

X

X3

V

X1

X

X3

= V size, A

X1

X

X3

= ASize.

Example:

I

V8X4•A8X4

8 video and 8 audio inputs and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 video and audio outputs.

Request part number

N

xx-xxx-xx

See appendix A for part #s.

Example:

N

60-638-21

 

 

 

MVX 88 VGA A part # is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60-638-21.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Query firmware version

Q

 

X11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example:

Q

1.23

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample value only.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loading firmware using an SIS command

Firmware can be uploaded two ways:

1. Using the Matrix Switchers Control Program.

2. Using the Esc upload SIS command entered via a communications utility such as HyperTerminal.

Extron recommends that you upload firmware using the Matrix Switchers Control Program (see Update firmware on page 4-14) and reserve this SIS procedure for correcting firmware that has been corrupted and unable to respond to the Matrix Switchers Control Program.

Firmware can be loaded using SIS commands as follows:

1.

Visit the Extron web site, www.extron.com, select the MVX switcher product

 

category, select the latest firmware file for download, and copy it to your

 

computer. Note the folder to which you save the firmware file.

2.

Start a communications utility such as HyperTerminal. Select the Comm port

 

that is connected to the switcher’s RS-232 port. Use 9600 bits per second, 8

 

data bits, “none” parity, 1 stop bit, and “none” flow control.

 

 

If you are performing this procedure to recover from corrupted firmware, the

 

 

 

 

switcher will respond only to the “n”, “q”, and “ Esc upload” SIS commands.

 

 

The firmware upload can

 

 

 

 

take several minutes. If

 

 

HyperTerminal’s echo

 

 

function is turned off, you

 

 

will have no indication

 

 

that the upload is

 

 

progressing. If desired,

 

 

turn on the echo function

 

 

as follows (figure 4-3):

 

 

Click File > Properties >

 

 

Settings > ASCII Setup...

 

 

and then click Ok twice.

3.

Depress the keyboard’s Esc

 

key and then type upload.

The computer responds with

 

the “Go” prompt.

Figure 4-3 — Turn on the echo function

 

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Extron electronic MVX 44, MVX 88, MVX 48 Loading firmware using an SIS command, Click File Properties, Settings Ascii Setup
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