Gilderfluke&Co Mp3-50 Audio & Show Controllers - Manual (Page 66)

Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 Serial Port Commands:
The Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 can be accessed through the serial port
from any computer running just about any modem or terminal program.
The computer you are using doesn’t even need to have any PC•MACs soft-
ware installed on it.
Most Gilderfluke & Company products can be controlled through their
RS-422 Serial ports. Up to 256 different cards and devices can be attached
to the same serial lines, to form a complete RS-422 ‘multi Drop’ network.
Anywhere on this network you can attach operator panels to access and
control it, or you can use a telephone or Internet modem so that it can be
accessed from around the block or around the world. Commands can be
addressed to a single card on the network, or all of the cards simultaneous-
ly.
One of the easiest and most flexible types of operator interfaces for ac-
cessing the serial network are the many touch screen operator panels.
These are available from a number of different suppliers, and most of them
will easily attach right to our serial network. Most of these allow you to ‘draw’
whatever buttons and user interface icons on their screens (using a provid-
ed Windows program), attach ASCII strings to these ‘buttons’, and then
download the final configuration to the operator panel so the PC can be
taken away.
Typical modem programs you can use are Terminal.exe (which came
with Windows 3.1) and HyperTerm.exe (which comes later versions of Win-
dows), or GilderTerm.
GilderTerm is available free from Gilderfluke & Co. for use with all of our
products. It can be downloaded from our web page, and is included on all
of our CD-ROMs. GilderTerm has been optimized for use with all Gilderfluke
& Company equipment. All the commands are built in, and it will even let
you use your mouse to select commands by simply clicking on them.
To use the Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40 with a terminal program, just con-
figure it for 9600 baud, no parity, eight data bits, one stop bit and ‘xon/xoff’
handshaking. If you are using GilderTerm, all the settings are fixed at the ap-
propriate settings. All you will need to do is select the appropriate ‘COM’
port.
Echo Commands:
“a” [nn] (card address) Echo On:
“b” Echo Off:
The ‘Echo ON’ command will turn on a special mode that will
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