Panasonic PT-DS8500E Technical Information Control commands via LAN, Command transmission method

Technical Information

Control commands via LAN

JJWhen WEB Control administrator rights password is set (Protect mode)

<Connection method>

1111 Obtain the IP address and port number (Initial set value = 1024) of the projector and make a request for connection to the projector.

You can obtain both IP address and port number from the menu screen of the projector.

IP address : Obtain from MAIN MENU ⇒ [NETWORK] ⇒ [NETWORK STATUS]

Port No. : Obtain from MAIN MENU ⇒ [NETWORK] ⇒ [NETWORK CONTROL] ⇒ [COMMAND PORT]

2222 There is a response from the projector.

Response data
Data section	Blank	Mode	Blank	Random number	Termination
				section	symbol
“NTCONTROL”	‘  ’	‘1’	‘  ’	“zzzzzzzz”	(CR)
(ASCII string)	0x20	0x31	0x20	(ASCII code hexadecimal	0x0d
				number)
9 bytes	1 byte	1 byte	1 byte	8 bytes	1 byte

Mode :   1 = Protect mode

3333 Generate a 32-byte hash value from the following data using MD5 algorithm.

“xxxxxx:yyyyy:zzzzzzzz”

xxxxxx: Administrator rights user name for WEB CONTROL (Default user name is “admin1”)

yyyyy: Password of above administrator rights user (Default password is “panasonic”)

zzzzzzzz: 8-byte random number obtained in Step 2)

<Command transmission method>

Transmit using the following command format.

Transmitted data

	Header			Data section		Termination
						symbol
Hash value		‘0’	‘0’	Control command		(CR)
(See above		0x30	0x30	(ASCII string)		0x0d
<Connection method>)
32 bytes		1 byte	1 byte	Undefined length		1 byte
Receive data
	Header			Data section		Termination
						symbol
‘0’		‘0’		Control command		(CR)
0x30		0x30		(ASCII string)		0x0d
1 byte		1 byte		Undefined length		1 byte
Error response
		Error message			Termination symbol
“ERR1”	Undefined control command					(CR)
“ERR2”	Out of parameter range					0x0d
“ERR3”	Busy state or no-acceptable period
“ERR4”	Timeout or no-acceptable period
“ERR5”	Wrong data length
“ERRA”	Password mismatch
		4 bytes				1 byte

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