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Chapter 5 Use of Serial Port
This product provides a serial control port to control the external equipment through the
serial cable. This function allows you to control the external equipment connected to the
serial port on the network unit through the network, and control the projector through the
serial cable with the external serial controller. Before connecting the external equipment,
perform the setting "Serial Port setting" described below.
Serial port setting
This is to set up the serial port on the network unit. Display the setting
page by clicking Serial Port setting sub menu in the Initial setting
menu. To communicate with external equipment correctly, communica-
tion condition must be set up to the same values as that the connected equipment is
using. When clicking on any item of the serial port setting, the setting pallet appears and
set up each item and then click Set button*
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Item Description
Baud rate ...............
Communication speed for serial port, select with the pull-down menu (300 ~ 115200)
Parity ........................ Parity check, the ways for error detecting of the transferred data (None, Odd, Even)
Stop bit ................... Stop bit, Select the end of communication (1 or 2)
Flow control ........Ways for communication flow (None, Xon/Xoff, RTS/CTS)
Data length ......... Selects the length of data (7 or 8)
Serial control ......Selects equipment to control (External or Projector)
External ............ Used to select when the external equipment connected to the serial
port is controlled by the computer through the LAN port.
Projector ......... Used to select when the projector is controlled by the serial controller
connected to the serial port.
Port number ....... Specifies the port number of TCP/IP. The default number is 23. Use the same port
number specified by application. There are some reserved port numbers*
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those port numbers is used, the alert dialog window will appear and let you know
that it is an invalid port number.
✐ This product will restart when "Port number" or "Serial Control" is changed and it takes about 20
seconds.