User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. RS232 SERIAL PROTOCOL PRESENTATION
- 3. setting the internal parameters of the wavecard
- 3.1- Configuration of the functional parameters
- 3.2- Configuration of the control parameters
- 3.2.1 - selection of the radio operating channel when FHSS is deselected
- 3.2.2 - Selection of the RF medium physical mode
- 3.2.3 - Selection of the radio board emission power
- 3.2.4 - Activation of the Wavenis RF Asic RSSI threshold autocorrection
- 3.2.5 - Selection of the serial baudrate.
- 3.2.6 - Reading the firmware version of the WaveCard
- 3.2.7 - Reading the RSSI level (Received Signal Strengh Indicator)
- 3.2.8 - TEST Mode
- 4. SERVICE COMMANDS
- 5. COMMUNICATION MODES
- 5.1- 'Frame Exchange’ Mode
- 5.2- 'Message’ Mode
- 5.3- ’Polling’ Mode
- 5.4- ’Broadcast’ mode
- 5.4.1 - Configuration of the parameters relating to the 'Broadcast' mode
- 5.4.2 - 'BroadCast' mode without waiting for a response
- 5.4.3 - 'BroadCast' mode with waiting for responses
- 5.4.4 - Format of the commands – from the request transmitter side
- 5.4.5 - Format of the commands – from the request receiver side
- 5.4.6 - Use of the selective, or not-selective broadcast mode
- 5.5- ’Multi frames' Mode
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commands are as follows,
CMD NOM DESCRIPTION
0x60 REQ_SELECT_CHANNEL
Request to select the radio operating channel when FHSS is
deselected
0x61 RES_SELECT_CHANNEL
Response to the channel selection request
0x62 REQ_READ_CHANNEL
Request to read the radio operating channel when FHSS is
deselected
0x63 RES_READ_CHANNEL
Response to the read channel request
Remark : These commands are used only when the mode of radio communication is mono-frequency with
selection of channel.
a) reading commands format of the channel used
Request, from the host to the WaveCard
REQ_READ_CHANNEL
HEADER CMD CRC ETX
3 bytes 1 byte 2 bytes 1 byte
0xFF ; 0x02 ;
0x04
0x62 0x03
Response, from the WaveCard to the host
RES_READ_CHANNEL
HEADER CMD D ATA CRC ETX
3 bytes 1 byte variable 2 bytes 1 byte
0xFF ; 0x02 ;
0xXX
0x63
Status = 0x00
reading ok
Channel number
1 byte
Status = 0x01
reading error
-
0x03
b) Writing commands format of the channel to use
Request, from the host to the WaveCard
REQ_SELECT_CHANNEL
HEADER CMD D ATA CRC ETX
3 bytes 1 byte 1 byte 2 bytes 1 byte
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