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Chapter 5 Use of Serial Port
Use of telnet
You can control the external equipment connected to the serial port on the network unit
by using the telnet application*
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installed on your computer. The following is a control
example of external equipment. The telnet application is needed to use commands*
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which control the external equipment.
Preparation
1 Disconnect the AC plug from the outlet, and connect the serial cable between the serial
ports on the network unit and external equipment. (Refer to the note on the page 67 for the
type of the serial cables.)
2 Turn on the projector and external equipment.
3 Display the setting page by clicking Serial Port setting sub menu in the Initial Setting main
menu with the web browser. Display the setting pallet by clicking any of the items on the serial
port setting page.(+ p.64).
4 Change the serial port setting to be the same communication condition as the connected
external equipment and then click Set button (+ p.64).
The following example setting is for our projector com-
munication condition. When controlling our projector
set as follows:
Control
(For example, in case of using the Telnet application of the Windows XP Professional.)
1 Select Run... submenu from Start menu on the computer. Type "telnet" onto the Open
text area on the displayed window and press OK button.
2 The telnet application will start and the following window will be displayed. Type as below
to connect the projector.
> open 192.168.1.201 [return]
Baud rate ...........................19200
Parity ....................................None
Stop bit ...............................1
Flow control ....................None
Data length ......................8
Serial control ...................External
Port number ....................23
* Use the IP address assigned to the projector