User's Manual

CHAPTER 5 READER-HOST COMMUNICATIONS INSTALLATION

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• Programmers are competent in at least one programming or scripting

language and have the ability to issue ASCII-based commands with that

language.

Requirements

Serial communication requires:

• A text-based serial communications program (such as Windows

HyperTerminal) running on any computer.

Ethernet communication requires:

• An Ethernet network.

• Standard Web browser or Telnet communication program

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this section:

• Keys to be pressed are shown in brackets and all caps. Example: Press the

[ENTER] key.

• Upon entering any command instruction, you must press [ENTER] to send

the command.

• Specific characters and commands to be typed in are shown within quotation

marks. Example: At the prompt type “Set DHCP=ON”.

• Values to be provided and typed in by the user are shown within brackets in

upper and lowercase. Example: At the prompt type “Set IPaddress=[ IP

address value]” or “Set IPaddress=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.” The actual command

typed in would appear as: “Set IPaddress=10.1.60.5”.

• Nanoscanner reader commands are case insensitive. Although, for clarity,

the commands may be shown in upper and lower case in this document, you

may type them in all lowercase characters, if you prefer.

• A space is required between the command (verb) such as “get” or “set” and

the specific parameters as in the example “Get IPaddress.” However, no

space is required between the parameter elements such as “IP” and

“address.”

Setting up Reader-Host Communications

You can interact with the reader via the three methods mentioned earlier: direct

serial, Telnet and Web. Serial and Telnet communications both involve command

line operation. Web communication uses HTML.

Command Line Operation: Direct Serial Communication

This method is required for installing a new Nanoscanner, whether directly or via

network. Serial communications requires no preconfiguration and can be

performed easily with most computers.