status of all the microphone inputs. On the EF2211 and EF2210, there is only one microphone, so the wildcard character is of limited use.

The GATEEN can be used to have gating information sent automatically instead of having to poll this command.

Also see the CGATE command, which only reports microphones that have been gated on for a specified hold time.

Example Description

Status Message

 

S01GATE1? , where x is 0 or 1 depending

S01GATE1? Query gating status of microphone input 1. on whether the input is gated off or gated on, respectively.

8.64. GATEEN -- Enable Automatic Gating Messages

This command controls whether or not gating information messages are sent automatically. If GATEEN is enabled, then a GATE*? query is performed each time the gating status of any microphone changes. For example, if no microphones are currently gated on and GATEEN is enabled, then if microphone input 1 gates on, the following status message will be automatically generated:

S01GATE*1

See the GATE command for more information.

This command is a boolean command. See Section 6.1 for more information on this type of command.

This command is saved to non-volatile memory only as part of a preset. The state of this command will be restored after power-up only if a preset is saved and that preset is set to be the power-on preset.

Example Description

S01GATEEN0Disable automatic gating messages. S01GATEEN1Enable automatic gating messages.

Toggle enabled state of automatic gating S01GATEEN2 messages.

Query enabled state of automatic gating S01GATEEN? messages.

Status Message

S01GATEEN0

S01GATEEN1

S01GATEENx , where x is either 0 or 1 depending on whether automatic gating messages are currently disabled or enabled.

S01GATEENx , where x is either 0 or 1 depending on whether automatic gating messages are currently disabled or enabled.

8.65. GMUTEO -- Mute All Outputs

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Polycom RS-232 manual Gateen -- Enable Automatic Gating Messages, Gmuteo -- Mute All Outputs
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RS-232 specifications

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