PJ-Net Organizer Owner's Manual

Chapter 5 Use of Serial Port

This product provides a serial control port (RS-232C) to control the external equipment

through the serial cable. This function allows you to control the external equipment

connected to the serial port on the Network Unit through the network, and control the

projector through the serial cable with the external serial controller. Before connecting

the external equipment, perform the setting "Serial Port setting" described below.

Serial port setting

This is to set up the serial port on the Network Unit. Display the set-

ting page by clicking Serial Port setting sub menu in the Initial setting

menu. To communicate with external equipment correctly, communi

cation condition must be set up to the same values as that the con

nected equipment is using. When clicking on any item of the serial port setting, the

setting pallet appears and set up each item and then click

Set button*

Item Description

Baud rate ...........

Communication speed for serial port, select with the pull-down menu (300 ~ 115200)

Parity ................. Parity check, the ways for error detecting of the transferred data (None, Odd, Even)

Stop bit .............. Stop bit, Select the end of communication (1 or 2)

Flow control .......Ways for communication flow (None, Xon/Xoff, RTS/CTS)

Data length ........ Selects the length of data (7 or 8)

Serial control .....Selects equipment to control (External or Projector)

External ........ Used to select when the external equipment connected to the serial

port is controlled by the computer through the LAN port.

Projector ....... Used to select when the projector is controlled by the serial controller

connected to the serial port.

Port number ....... Specifies the port number of TCP/IP. The default number is 23. Use the same port

number specified by application. There are some reserved port numbers*

. If one of

those port numbers is used, the alert dialog window will appear and let you know that

it is an invalid port number.

*1 This product will restart when "Port number" or "Serial Control" is changed and it takes about

20 seconds.