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USER’S MANUAL

Section 12: System Functions and Remote Control 247

Contact Closures

ForadditionalinformationonconnectingtotheparallelGPIOportseemanualSections3.2

(GuidedTouroftheHardware‐nonmixer)andSection3.4GuidedTouroftheHardwareMX/P

andSection11.6‐11.7(DetailedMenuReference).

ParalleloutputsmaybeaffectedeitherbythecorrespondinginputattheremoteZephyror

Xstream(en

d‐to‐endoperation),orcanbeusedtomonitorfunctionsoftheXstream.See

Section11.6fordetailsonthemenuselectionsaffectingthecontactclosuresfunctionality.

Normally,theclosuresaresimplypassed‐throughfromoneendtotheother.Thefunctionof

eachinputoroutputcanbesetusingth

efrontpanel:

12.2 Remote Control

The Command Line Interface

Thecommandlineinterfacecanbeaccessedintwoways:ViatheRS‐232serialportorbyusing

TelnettoaccesstheunitoverIPthroughtheserialport.

RS‐232Port

TheRS‐232serialportcanbeusedforcomputercontrolofthesystem.Fullstatusandcontr

ol

areavailableviathisport,includingISDNdialing,storageofset‐ups,etc.

ThecommunicationprotocolissimpleASCIItext,soitmaybeusedeasilywithanycomputer

andterminalemulationsoftware.Someareusingapalmtopcomputerwithmacrostocontrol

theirXstreamsinthefield

Some“terminalem

ulation”softwarepossibilitiesare:

• ForthePC:Crosstalk,Procomm,MSWindowsbuilt‐inHyperTerminal,etc.

• FortheMacintosh:Z‐Term,WhiteKnight,etc.



TheZephyrXstreammaybeconnectedlocallytoapersonalcomputer,ortoamodemfor

controlfromaremotesite.Therewillbediffere

ncesintherequiredcabling,asdescribedinthe

Section3.TheZephyrXstreamserialportisconfiguredasDCE(DataTerminalEquipment),

whichmeansitlooksliketheconnectiononamodem,ratherthanonacomputer.

• Withlocalcomputeroperation,astandard(non‐null)cableisuse

d.

• Withamodemconnection,aspecial"nullmodem"cableisrequired.For

moreinformationonthecorrectcableseeSection4.

Accessingthecommandlineusingtheserial port

Note,thissamecommandlanguageisavailableusingTelnettoaccesstheZephyrXstream.

FirstconnecttheXstreamtoacomp

uter’sserialport.SincetheXstreamhasaDCEinterfaceyou

willneedtouseastraightthroughcable.

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