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3.12.1 Configuring the Serial Port
NOTE: You must
reboot the Mesh
Point in order to change
the function of the
ES210 serial port.
Enabling the serial sensor disables the serial port for Mesh
Point CLI access. The Mesh Point CLI remains accessible by a
terminal emulation application over an SSH2 (Secure Shell 2)
network connection, provided SSH access is
on (the default;
refer to Section 4.1.13).
Use
set sensor to enable and configure the ES210 Mesh
Point’s serial port to connect to an external serial device:
# set sensor -enable y|n -baud 300|600|1200|2400|4800|9600|19200|38400 -parity none|even|odd
-stopBits 1|2 -port
<5000..65534>
CAUTION:
Enabling the
Serial Sensor function
on the ES210 Mesh Point
disables management
access through the serial
port.
Enable ( y ) or disable ( n) the serial sensor function. Disabling
the Serial Sensor function re-enables the port’s Mesh Point CLI
Console function and automatically returns serial port settings to
the correct values for the Mesh Point CLI (baud rate:
9600 ,
parity:
none , stop bits: 1 ).
Specify the Baud Rate (
-baud), the number of bits per second
for the serial connection at
300, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 (the
automatic setting for the
Console port), 19200 , or 38400 (the
default when
sensor is Enabled ).
Parity specifies whether the parity bit used for error checking
results in an
Even or Odd number of bits per byte or, with a
setting of
None (the default), that no parity bit should be added.
StopBits specifies whether the port should use a stop bit of 1
(the default) or
2.
Specify the TCP port (-
port) for the serial interface. Port
values between
5000 and 65534 are valid; the default is port
5001 .
The serial port always uses 8 data bits per character and no
hardware or software flow control.
After entering the configuration information, you must reboot
the ES210 Mesh Point to change the serial port function (refer
to Section 5.2).
You can view the current serial sensor settings for the Mesh
Point:
# show sensor
Serial Sensor Settings
Enabled: no
Baud Rate: 38400
Parity: none
Stop Bits: 1
Port: 5001