Magi’c Box User manual Electromechanical Control Business Division Industrial Solutions Company Panasonic Corporation Product description Part Number Panasonic’s part number Country of origin Application Model number Magi’c Box Japan Consumer wireless control system ZERS1901
1. System Overview This product is a two-button switch unit used in consumer wireless control system. When the switch button is pressed by the operation of a lever etc. into which this product is embedded, electric power is generated by its mechanical operation. The generated electric power is used to transmit information such as which of the two buttons is pressed using 2.4GHz to a wireless receiver of a wireless control system installed at a remote location.
1.1. Precautions This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC CAUTION Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.
2. Magi’c Box Overview The following pictures shows the Magi’c box appearance. It has two button, A and B. It transmit data when these buttons are pushed. B Button Back Side A Button Top Front Side Bottom Label Fig.
3. Test Receiver The following pictures shows the test receiver for theMagi’c box switch. Antenna LED Indicator USB Connector Power switch Fig.2 Pictures of Test Receiver 3.1. LED Test receiver has three LED and those display is defined as follows.
4. Setup of test receiver 4.1. Installing USB driver to PC Prior to connect the test receiver to PC, please install the USB driver which is provided by FTDI, D2XX Direct driver (CDM v2.12.28 WHQL Certified.zip) to you PC. The driver should be for Windows OS 64bit version. 4.2. Installing application software to PC Please install application software, Setup_Test_Receiver_1.0.xlsm on your PC. It is a Microsoft Excel Macro. It can be installed to any directory. The dll file, cypher_gen64.
4.3. Setting of Test receiver (1) Power slide switch should be set to USB side (2) Connect test receiver to PC by USB cable (3) Check if the power indicator lights up or not.
4.4. Connecting serial port of test receiver with PC Push the button as follows to connect serial port of test receiver with PC. Push the button until the display gets “Port Close” Fig.5 Connecting serial port test receiver with PC 4.5 Paring Magi’c box to test receiver (1) Enter the address of Magi’c box that you want to pair to yellow box.
(1) (2) (4) (3) (5) Fig.
5 Logout message The example of Logout messages are shown as below. If the pairing has not been completed, the payload cannot be decrypted as the third line message. Time stamp Rx OK Sequence num Payload( not decrypted) Log out RSSI Fig.7 Logout message example when pairing is not complete Time stamp Magi’c box address RSSI Log out 10: Decrypted success SW A or B Fig.
6 Contacts (1) USA Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America Address：205 Ravendale Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043 +1-201-341-6081 (2) Japan Electromechanical Control Business Division Industrial Solution Company Panasonic Corporation Address：1006 Oaza Kadoma Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8506 +81-50-3487-8129
