Chapter 5 Use of Serial Port
This product provides a serial control port
Serial port setting
This is to set up the serial port on the Network Unit. Display the set- ting page by clicking Serial Port setting sub menu in the Initial setting menu. To communicate with external equipment correctly, communi- cation condition must be set up to the same values as that the con-
nected equipment is using. When clicking on any item of the serial port setting, the setting pallet appears and set up each item and then click Set button*1.
Item | Description |
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Baud rate | Communication speed for serial port, select with the | |
Parity | Parity check, the ways for error detecting of the transferred data (None, Odd, Even) | |
Stop bit | Stop bit, Select the end of communication (1 or 2) | |
Flow control | Ways for communication flow (None, Xon/Xoff, RTS/CTS) | |
Data length | Selects the length of data (7 or 8) | |
Serial control | Selects equipment to control (External or Projector) | |
| External | Used to select when the external equipment connected to the serial |
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| port is controlled by the computer through the LAN port. |
| Projector | Used to select when the projector is controlled by the serial controller |
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| connected to the serial port. |
Port number | Specifies the port number of TCP/IP. The default number is 23. Use the same port | |
| number specified by application. There are some reserved port numbers*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. | |
*1 This product will restart when "Port number" or "Serial Control" is changed and it takes about 20 seconds.
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