Chapter 7 Use of Serial Port

This product provides a serial control port (RS-232C) to control the external equipment which has an RC-232C port. This function allows external equipment to be controlled by the computer through the network and the projector can be controlled by the external serial controller. Before connecting the external equipment, perform the setting “Serial port setting” described below.

Serial Port setting

This is to set up the serial port on the network unit. Display the setting page by clicking on Serial Port on the main menu. To communicate with external equipment cor- rectly, communication condition must be set to the same values as that the connected equipment is using. After fixing the setting, click Set button*1.

Item

Description

 

Baud Rate..........

Communication speed for serial port, select with the pull-down menu.

Parity..................

Parity check, the ways for error detecting of the transferred data.

Stop ..................

Stop bit, indicates the end of communication.

Flow Control ......

Ways for communication flow.

Data ..................

Indicates the length of data

Serial Control ....Selects equipment to control

 

External ........

Used to select when the external equipment connected to the serial

 

 

port is controlled by the computer through the LAN port.

 

Projector........

Used to select when the projector is controlled by the serial controller

 

 

connected to the serial port.

Port ....................

Indicates the port number of TCP/IP. The default number is 23. Use the same port

 

number specified by application. There are some reserved port number*2. If one of

 

those port numbers is used, the alert dialog window will appear and let you know

 

that it is an invalid port number.

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