User Manual Part 1

CHAPTER 3
PROGRAMMING
ESTEEM FEATURES
Revised: 15 Oct 03 3-4 EST P/N AA104
MULTI-CONNECT
The actual polling of the ESTeem must originate from the host device connected to the ESTeem using the CONNECT command
to originate the initial connect and the COMMAND character to return from the CONVERSE mode to the COMMAND mode.
The first time around the pole a CONNECT data packet (RF transmission) will be initiated. When a link is established, it is held
internally in the ESTeem connect table. The next time around the pole to the same address, the link status will be checked in the
ESTeem table. If the address indicates a link has already been established, then only data and its corresponding ACK will be
transmitted to that node. This greatly increases polling time by eliminating the usual CONNECT/DISCONNECT sequence each
time except when communication is first established.
The MULTID command allows the user to send data to a specific ESTeem address from the CONVERSE Mode by specifying the
ESTeem address routing before the data packet. This feature will also display the address of the sending ESTeem on any
received data.
Example Of Transmitted Data:
[001]DATA Routes data to an ESTeem addressed 1.
[100,200,250,1]DATA Routes data to an ESTeem addressed 1 via ESTeems addressed 100, 200, and 250.
The above example replaces the CONNECT command from the COMMAND Mode.
Received data packets will have the address of the ESTeem that sent the data at the beginning of the data packet.
Example Of Received Data:
[004]RECEIVED DATA Data received from ESTeem addressed 4.
[030,100,244,004] Data received from ESTeem addressed 4 via ESTeems addressed 30, 100, and 244.
MULTID (on/off) = On Enables this feature. Factory default = OFF.