Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System User Manual
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Repeaters) in your computer for later retrieval or archiv-
ing, and then simply and easily reload this data at any
time. To save the data to the disk of your computer:
1) Turn off all echo modes.
2) Tell your computer to save all ASCII text received
from the serial port.
3) Give this command to any Smart Brick Brain (or
other serial device) in the system.
4) When the download is finished, tell your computer
to ‘stop’ saving ASCII text.
Step #3 above can be repeated for any number of
Smart Brick Brains (or other Smart Bricks and Digital Audio
Repeaters) in the system. This stored file can then be
played back to the Smart Brick System where it will be
reloaded into the configuration EEproms of all the ap-
propriate Smart Brick Brains and other devices.
The data returned by this command is as follows:
BYTE 1 = 's'
BYTE 2 = ‘5’
BYTE 3 = ‘A’
BYTE 4 = ‘A’
BYTE 5 = ‘5’
BYTES 6 & 7 = TRACK# (00 to FFH) This is the address of the
Smart Brick Brain which is accepting the command.
BYTES 8 through 89,901 = ASCII HEX DATA DUMP FROM CON-
FIGURATION EEprom
BYTE 89,902 = CARRIAGE RETURN
BYTE 89,903 = LINE FEED
EXAMPLE: to poll the configuration for Smart Brick Brain
00:
r00
s5AA50000............
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