Serial Communications

To interface the CL-810 with a home theater automation/control system or a PC running terminal emulation software:

1.Connect it to your control system or PC as shown in Figure 3-14.

2.Start a terminal session on your PC using a terminal-emulation program, such as HyperTerminal.

3.Configure the RS-232 controller or PC serial port as follows: no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no flow control. Set the baud rate to match that of the projector (115200, 38400 or 9600).

4.Press <Enter>. You should see a command prompt (>) in the terminal window.

5.Type a command from among those listed in Table 6-1and press <Enter>. For example, to change the aspect ratio to Letterbox, type x063x <Enter>.

Serial commands to the CL-810 take the following form:

Commands are in ASCII format.

Commands are not case-sensitive; X001X and x001x are equivalent.

A carriage return MUST follow each command.

Note

The CL-810 will not accept serial commands for 20 seconds after it

is turned on or off.

6.1

RS-232 Connection and Port Configuration

6.2

Serial Command Syntax

Table 6-1. Serial Commands

Code

Function

 

 

x001x

Power On

 

 

x002x

Power Off

 

 

x003x

Menu

 

 

x004x

Enter

 

 

x005x

Exit

 

 

x006x

Up (arrow key)

 

 

x007x

Down (arrow key)

 

 

x008x

Left (arrow key)

 

 

x009x

Right (arrow key)

 

 

x011x

Show active source and aspect ratio information

 

 

x021x

Keypad 1

 

 

x022x

Keypad 2

 

 

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