Extron electronic RGB 580XI manual Remote Control, cont’d, Control Software for Windows

Remote Control, cont’d

(defined below) to represent variables.	• = Space		= Shift control range (-63 to +63)	= Controller firmware version (listed to two decimal places	e.g.: x.xx)
			X1	X2
The command/response table page uses symbols	Symbol definitions	= CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) (hex 0D 0A)

X3 = Frequency in Hz or kHz (listed as xxx.xx)

Command/response table

Additional	description
Response	(interface to host)
ASCII Command	(host to interface)

Command description

been	1 and 2.
closure has	across pins
Contact	detected

Chn

Whenever the Input Select button on the AAP device is pressed, contact closure is initiated at the RGB 580xi remote interface and a signal is sent from the remote interface’s RS-232 port.

Increment down

Increment up

Set horizontal shift value

X1	X1	X1
Hph	Hph	Hph

X1 H { H } H

Horizontal shift Specify horizontal shift Shift right one step Shift left one step

version (Ver x.xx)	interface’s part #	status
Display	Display	Display

		60-362-01	(see below)
	X2
		N
requests, and reset	Q/q	N/n	I/i
Firmware version, part number & information	Query firmware version number	Request part number	Request information

Hph X1 •Hrt X3 •Vrt X3

Control Software for Windows

The included graphical control software for Windows offers another way to control the interface via RS-232 in addition to the Simple Instruction Set commands listed on page 3-4. The control software is compatible with Windows 3.1x, Windows 95/ 98, and Windows NT. The RGB 580xi uses version 2.0 or higher of Extron’s RGB 302/304 Control Program, which is included with these interfaces.

Installing the software

The control program is contained on a 3.5-inch diskette, and it can run from the floppy drive. However, it is more convenient to run the program from the hard drive.

To install the software onto the hard drive, run SETUP.EXE from the floppy disk, and follow the instructions that appear on the screen. The program requires approximately 1 MB (megabyte) of hard disk space.

By default the installation creates a C:\RGB302 directory, and it places two icons (RGB 302+304 Control Pgm and RGB 302+

304 Help) into a group or folder named “Extron Electronics”.

Using the software

To run the control program, follow these steps:

1.Double-click on the RGB 302 + 304 Control Pgm icon in the Extron Electronics group or folder, or on the Rgb302.exe icon in the C:\RGB302 directory. The Comm menu appears on the screen.

2.Click on the comm port that is connected to the interface’s RS-232 port. The control software “looks for” the interface at that port and reads its configuration.

The control program window (shown below) appears and displays current settings.

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