Tethered Scanners And The Mx7 Cradles - Honeywell MX7 Reference Manual

Tethered Scanners and the MX7 Cradles

An MX7 powered cradle supports tethered scanner attachment. A powered cradle provides 5V power to a tethered scanner.
The MX7 passive vehicle cradle cannot support tethered scanner attachment.
Note: Pressing an MX7 Scan button has no effect on tethered bar code scanners connected to a powered desktop cradle.
Tethered scanners read bar code scans only when the trigger on the tethered scanner is pressed.
A tethered scanner can be connected to the 9-pin RS232 Serial Interface port on the desktop cradle or to the Serial Interface
port on the back of the vehicle cradle.
MX7 keypad data entries can be mixed with tethered scanner bar code data entries. Any tethered scanner that decodes the bar
code internally and outputs an RS232 data stream may be used. It sends the data to the MX7 in ASCII format.
Tethered scanners send scanned data to the MX7 when the MX7 is in a powered cradle and the scanners are connected to the
Serial Interface port on the cradle.
When a tethered scanner is connected to the Serial Interface port on a powered cradle, the MX7 must be configured as follows:
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Scanner > Main > either Port 1, Port 2 or Port 3
Select Port 2. Port 1 (COM1) is reserved for Bluetooth scanner connections.
There is no software in the desktop cradle.
Bluetooth device connection and use, while the MX7 is docked, are managed by the MX7 Bluetooth client, not the cradle.
Note: The cradle must be powered by an external power source to enable tethered scanner use.
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