User's Manual

Waveport CF user manuel Coronis Systems
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................6
1.1 Scope of this document...............................................................................................................................7
1.1.1 Terms.............................................................................................................................................7
1.1.2 Usage scenarios ...........................................................................................................................7
2. RS232 SERIAL PROTOCOL PRESENTATION............................................................................................8
2.1 Basic data exchange...................................................................................................................................8
2.1.1 Low-level acknowledgement..........................................................................................................8
2.1.2 Request / response mechanism.....................................................................................................9
2.2 Format of exchanged frames....................................................................................................................10
2.2.1 Wake-up and synchronization mechanism...................................................................................10
2.2.2 Frame description........................................................................................................................10
2.2.3 Sample CRC code (C language)..................................................................................................11
2.3 Command description...............................................................................................................................12
2.3.1 Control commands.......................................................................................................................12
2.3.2 Application commands.................................................................................................................12
2.3.3 Service commands......................................................................................................................14
3. SETTING INTERNAL WAVEPORT CF PARAMETERS ............................................................................15
3.1 Configuring functional parameters............................................................................................................15
3.1.1 Format for accessing internal parameters....................................................................................16
3.1.2 Example: Configuring repeater table and activating error frames................................................18
3.2 Wake-up and synchronization...................................................................................................................18
3.2.1 Transmitting and receiving frames...............................................................................................19
3.2.2 Examples of different wake-up conditions....................................................................................20
3.2.3 Example of point-to-point request / response exchange..............................................................21
3.3 Configuring control parameters.................................................................................................................22
3.3.1 Selecting RF communication mode.............................................................................................23
3.3.2 Selecting radio channel when FHSS is deselected......................................................................25
3.3.3 Selecting radio board transmission power....................................................................................26
3.3.4 Activating RSSI threshold auto-correction....................................................................................28
3.3.5 Selecting the serial baud rate.......................................................................................................29
3.3.6 Reading Waveport CF firmware version......................................................................................30
3.3.7 Reading RSSI..............................................................................................................................31
3.3.8 RSSI command format.................................................................................................................32
3.3.9 TEST Mode..................................................................................................................................33
4. SERVICE COMMANDS..............................................................................................................................34
4.1 Command description and formats...........................................................................................................34
4.2 Request types...........................................................................................................................................35
4.3 Detecting presence of Waveport CF (Wavenis) modules..........................................................................36
5. COMMUNICATION MODES.......................................................................................................................37
5.1 Frame exchange mode.............................................................................................................................37
5.1.1 Configuring parameters................................................................................................................37
5.1.2 Commands and formats...............................................................................................................38
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