Command Processor

The heart of the control system includes a powerful command processor which reads all commands that come in either through the DTMF decoders or through the CPU board’s serial port, analyzes them and executes valid commands.

Here are some important concepts to understand in the behavior of the command processor…

1.Command strings entered through the DTMF decoders or the serial port are inserted into the command processor and treated the same.

2.Commands may consist of 2, 3, 4 or 5 characters.

3.No “terminator” or “enter” key is used. As digits are entered, the command processor scans the input buffer and if it detects a valid command, it will immediately execute the command and flush only those characters from the buffer. While this makes the command processor powerful in terms of command names and keeps commands names short, the limitation is that you can not have a command name that is a subset of another. For example you can have commands “123” and “456” but you can NOT have a command “12” and another command “123”. In this case, the command processor will detect “12” as a valid command and execute it before it sees anything else.

4.The control system never uses an “unkey” or drop of COR signal to execute a command. This lets you run full time linked systems including VOIP and microwave systems and not rely on a loss of COR to execute.

5.Commands can be strung together. For example, commands 123, 456 and 789 can be run together as “123456789” and all three will be executed properly and again, no unkey is required.

6.When a valid command is decoded, the system will generate “function complete” telemetry. This indicates that a command was executed. You will hear a function complete tone for each valid function. The default tone set for function complete is “beep beep” of two 1064 Hz beeps of about 100 ms. duration.

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Sierra 200 owner manual Command Processor

200 specifications

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