User manual

Serial Ports

The BomeBox allows you to plug one or more USB serial port

adapters (RS-232) into the USB host port (or an attached USB

hub). Note that while the most common brands of serial port

adapters work with the BomeBox, there might be particular

serial port adapters which do not work with the BomeBox.

Mapping Serial Ports to MIDI

At this point, serial ports can only be used from MIDI Transla-

tor projects. Use Bome MIDI Translator Pro on a computer to

create translations to and from one or more serial ports. Then

upload the project file to the BomeBox (see page 18), select it,

and assign the Serial Port alias(es).

Assigning Serial Port Aliases

In a MIDI Translator project, serial ports are referenced by an

alias name. When you select a project with such a Serial Port

Alias, go to the Serial Ports page in the Web Config. In the list

of serial ports, you will all plugged-in serial ports, plus one en-

try for each Serial Port Alias used in the project.

Red rows in the list mean that you should assign the respec-

tive Serial Port Alias.

For all Serial Port Aliases, you will find a drop-down list in the

Assignment column. The drop-down list has the following en-

tries:

ᴑ (none): select this to not select a device for this serial port

alias. All translations in the project which use this serial port

will be disabled.

ᴑ (none – ignore): selecting this for an alias is the same as

(none), but the Web Config not prompt you to assign this

serial port alias anymore.