Device Ports - VeriFone e355 User And Best Practices Manual

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Table 6 Android/Windows Protocol Strings
Protocol Strings on
Android/Windows
<0xFF5A><o5><CRC>
<0xFF5A><o6><CRC>
PMR-MUX2 protocol uses commands to open, send, and close the
communications ports. For full details on the PMR-MUX2 protocol, refer to section
PMR-MUX2.
Applications running on e355 open the virtual COM device ports COM1A,
COM1B, COM1C, COM1D, and COM1E. These applications respond to the data
sent to these ports.
Table 7 shows the application names that open specific device ports.
Table 7 Applications vs. Device Ports
Virtual COM Port on e355
COM1A
COM1B
COM1C
COM1D
COM1E
XPI application uses COM1C port for supporting Zontalk downloads in addition to
its COM1A port for communicating with smart devices. The last COM1E port is
available for debug message output. There are no applications using this port.
Open and Close Events of Communication Ports
The e355 sends a Connect event to its application when application on the smart
device opens the port for communication. The e355 sends a Disconnect event
to its application when application on smart device closes the communication port.
If the e355 application has not opened the device port, but application on smart
device tries to open it, then e355 responds with an error code.
Applications on e355 can use API get_port_status() for detecting open and
close status of communication port in the smart device application.
Device Port APIs
Following are the APIs used by the device ports.
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Virtual COM Ports on e355
COM1D
COM1E
Application Owner
mADK/XPI application
Barcode application
Zontalk downloads
Control application
Debug message output