Communications

On the 3 tabs of the Communications application pace, serial and Ethernet settings can exist implemented. Click the advisable tab to enter your setting values.

On the Serial tab, you can configure series port values (speed, parity, data bits, cease bits or RS-232 Inter-graphic symbol Delay (ms)) as well every bit USB connexion settings.

By default, the DataMan reader uses a USB commuter that can help the reader recover from an electrostatic belch (ESD) event. Utilize USB Commuter Compatibility Manner if yous crave strict conformance to the USB specification.

In the Used advice channel option, you tin can set the communication method via USB. Depending on the used device, the following options are bachelor:

  • USB-COM merely: Choose this option to reach the device through a serial port.
  • USB-HID only: This option ensures that the device will comport similar a USB keyboard.
  • USB-COM + USB-HID: This is a combination of the above modes.

Note: In the case of USB-COM but, some devices may also be listed under HID devices, even if they lack HID functionality.

On the Ethernet tab, configure network settings for your wireless or tethered reader. If you are using a wireless reader, configure network settings on the base station.

Select the Employ DHCP Server selection to have the reader assigned an IP address past a DHCP server (if one is bachelor), or enter the network settings manually. Contact your network ambassador for an appropriate value or click Copy PC Network Settings. Your ain PC network settings will be copied in the in a higher place fields, including the IP address of your computer. Brand sure you practice non forget to update this to the IP accost of your reader.

Under Telnet, y'all tin can set the Telnet Port. The reader allows TCP connections to port 23, which is the default TCP port for Telnet applications. If you apply a Telnet client, the just parameter you will accept to provide is the reader's IP address. If you are using another awarding or SDK to connect, make certain that information technology uses the same TCP port setting equally your reader does. The reader will automatically send code output over this connectedness. You lot are able to transmit DataMan Command Commands (DMCC) over this connexion every bit well.

Under Industrial Protocols, y'all can choose ane of the post-obit protocols: EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, SLMP Protocol or Modbus TCP. The Status field of the industrial protocols displays the terminal logged message of the status dialog. The message will remain displayed until another message is logged. If no industrial protocol is enabled, the condition field remains blank. Status messages vary by protocol, and some protocols do non log any messages.

For Modbus TCP, y'all accept the option to set up Idle Timeout. Idle Timeout is the corporeality of time that a port is held open with no approachable traffic. Once the reader opens a connection to an FTP server, the reader keeps that connection open equally long as traffic occurs. If no traffic occurs for the set Idle Timeout menstruum, the connection is airtight. This can be useful if an FTP transfer only happens seldom and the network overhead for keeping the connection open up is not desired.

The Network Customer behavior is a means for the reader to actively open an Ethernet connexion to some other device on the network. Once open, the connection will have the same basic operational behavior every bit the DataMan Telnet connection; it can produce read results (transmit results to the external device) and it can act as a DMCC server (process commands received from the external device).

For further data, encounter the Dataman Industrial Protocols Transmission.

In the Avant-garde tab you accept further configuration options. In a tabular array-style view yous can run across the settings and the respective values for serial and Ethernet connections.

In add-on, you can set Non-Printing Characters. Usually, the raw values for non-printing characters are transmitted when the reader is configured for COM communications. These values are non visible at all when the reader is configured in keyboard wedge configurations. You can configure the reader to convert not-printing characters into sequences of keyboard printable characters such equally <CR> by enabling the Interpret Unprintable Characters characteristic. Eight-bit ASCII graphic symbol codes with values of 0x00 through 0x1F and 0x7F are converted when Translate Unprintable Characters is enabled.

Under Serial Trigger, the Trigger ON and Trigger OFF commands support a character limit with a resulting sequence that may have, at most, 32 bytes. Depending on how many escape sequences you lot utilize this means that the valid length of the acceptable string can vary between 32 characters (no escape sequences) and 128 (32 * 4-char escape sequences [e.chiliad. \002]) characters.

Under Custom Commands, y'all can besides set up Echo Commands. When enabled, Echo Commands will echo back the commands you transport to the reader equally soon as the command, delimited past the Control Header and Command Footer strings, is received. Custom commands are provided to be used by a PLC or like device and not intended to be manually entered. The inter-character delay is ready to a pocket-size value, roughly 50 ms, so that ho-hum typing of a custom command will be not recognized by the first character. A Trigger ON or Trigger OFF command greater than a single character must exist sent as a string from another application.