User`s manual

Linea 2K, 4K, 8K and 16K Camera User's Manual PRELIMINARY 69
Teledyne DALSA 03-032-20206-01
Notes on Using Alternatives to HyperTerminal
 If you are using interfaces other than HyperTerminal, the ASCII character, ESC, is decimal 27 and
needs to be issued. From the command line insert ESC by using ALT+2+7 of the activated Num-
Pad. In some cases this needs to be followed by a carriage return or a linefeed to send this to the
camera.
 In ASCII the ESC character may look like this: “←”.
ASCII to GenCP
To switch from the ASCII-command interface to the GenCP interface, the camera must be either reset
(RC) or the power must be cycled. Note that GenCP and ASCII commands cannot be accessed
simultaneously.
The camera responds to a simple ASCII-based protocol. A carriage return <CR> ends each command.
Example: to return the current detector settings
gcp <CR>
A complete list of the available detector commands, their format and parameters can be displayed by
sending the help (h) command.
Port Configuration
Baud: 9,600
Bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1
Flow Control: None
Echo typed characters locally.
Rules
 The interface is not case sensitive
 One command and argument(s) per line
 To enter a floating point number prefix it with a ―F‖ – for example ―ssg 0 f1.5‖
 Error codes returned are the same as the GenICam™ interface – see Diagnostics | Error Codes
 Follow each command with the carriage return character – 0x0D
Note that the HyperTerminal application is not available on the Windows 7 OS.
Alternatives to HyperTerminal
The following alternative ASCII-interfaces have been tested and shown to work with this camera:
PuTTY and TeraTerm. Note that PuTTY does not have Xmodem capability while TeraTerm does.
Xmoden is required to update code in the camera.
TeraTerm http://logmett.com/index.php?/download/tera-term-473-freeware.html
PuTTY http://putty.en.softonic.com/