Gilderfluke&Co BR-MultiBrick32 - Manual (Page 27)

BR-MultiBrick32 Serial Port Commands:
The BR-MultiBrick32 can be accessed through the serial port from any
computer running just about any modem or terminal program. The com-
puter you are using doesn’t even need to have any PC•MACs software in-
stalled on it.
Most Gilderfluke & Co 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 simultaneously.
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 of the commands are built in, and it will even
let you use your mouse to select commands.
To use the BR-MultiBrick32 with a terminal program, just configure it for
9600 baud, no parity, eight data bits, one stop bit and ‘xon/xoff’ handshak-
ing. If you are using GilderTerm, all of the settings are fixed at the appropri-
ate 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
cause all of the other serial port commands to echo on the se-
lected card. This used when you are setting up serial commands
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