Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System - Manual (Page 141)

figuration settings shown in the menu above. You can
reload just the current calendar, or all of twelve of them.
“r” Download Configuration:
This command is used to store the current configura-
tion as a file on your computer. This file, once saved, can
be restored to any 2.00 (or later) Smart Brick Brain by sim-
ply sending it back to the Brain. If the serial address of
the saved file is different from the current address of the
Smart Brick Brain, then you should only load it from within
the Smart Brick Brain’s configuration mode. Otherwise,
the addresses will not match, and the Smart Brick Brain
will ignore the file. (Before you exit configuration mode
after doing an upload, check and correct the serial ad-
dress for this Smart Brick Brain on the ‘Main’ menu).
This command responds with the current contents of
the configuration EEprom for this Smart Brick Brain. This
string of 89,903 ASCII characters (65,315 for older Smart
Brick Brains) is led off by the character string 's5AA5'. As it
happens, this is the lead in string for the LOAD CONFIGU-
RATION command. This allows you to save the configu-
ration of one or more Smart Brick Brains (or other Smart
Bricks and Digital Audio Repeaters) in your computer for
later retrieval or archiving, and then simply and easily
reload this data at any time. To save the data to the disk
of your computer:
1) Invoke this command by hitting ‘r’ from any config-
uration screen.
2) Tell your computer to save all ASCII text received
from the serial port. It will ask you to give the file that
will be created a name and navigate to where you
would like it stored. We try to use the extension of
‘.brn’ for these files. If given the option, tell your com-
puter not to change any carriage returns (‘CR’) or
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