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Serial to Ethernet Converter
STE02W
USER MANUAL
V. 1.2

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  • Page 1 Serial to Ethernet Converter STE02W USER MANUAL V. 1.2...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Connecting a serial device 4.1.3 Connection to Power Line 4.1.4 Sample Configuration Configuration Software 4.2.1 Software Installation 4.2.2 Configuring device with ‘MG Device Wiz’ Advanced Configuration 4.3.1 System Information 4.3.2 Serial Port – Basic 4.3.3 Serial Port – Port Services 4.3.4 Serial Port –...
  • Page 3 Operating mode examples Realport 5.1.1 STE02W Configuration 5.1.2 Driver Installation 5.1.3 System Testing Serial Bridge 5.2.1 STE02W Configuration 5.2.2 System Testing Reset Procedure Technical Support...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    1.1 Declaration of conformity With the present MG S.r.l. declares that the product STE02W is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/05/EC, with reference to the following regulatory standards:...

  • Page 5: Description

    To meet different needs, you can set the speed of serial interface, the parity bits, and stop, the format of the data and the type of flow control; this way you can adapt STE02W to your application quickly and easily.

  • Page 6: Hardware Specifications

    3 Hardware Specifications 3.1 Connections 3.1.1 Front Panel − Power Supply: Male connector. Power Connector Figure 2: Module STE02W: Front View.

  • Page 7: Rear Panel

    3.1.2 Rear Panel − Serial Port: DB9 male connector (DTE). − Standard WiFi Antenna connector. − Power Supply LED: STE02W device power state. − Link LED: Wireless network Connection. − Activity LED: Wireless connection Activity. Power Supply LED Yellow Link LED...

  • Page 8: Installation

    4.1.1 Connecting to the Wireless network Turn on the device and wait for the Link LED to stop blinking; this means that STE02W is connected to one of the available wireless networks. The converter is able to connect to networks with access point or ad-hoc networks. If the Link LED does not stop blinking, make sure that the device is in an area covered by Wireless Lan or that the network security features are compatible with the security settings of your STE02W.

  • Page 9: Connecting A Serial Device

    Connecting a serial device Connect DB9 male connector of STE02W to serial device using RS-232 serial cable (DB9 M/F); if STE02W needs to be connected to a PC or another device with serial port DTE use a NULL modem cable (DB9 F/F).

  • Page 10: Sample Configuration

    4.1.4 Sample Configuration Access Point Ethernet WLAN Serial Serial Device Figure 8: Sample Configuration.

  • Page 11: Configuration Software

    To configure the device easily you can use the installation wizard. This procedure allows you to install and run ' MG Device Wiz’ for STE02W devices configuration. ‘Mg Device Wiz’ allows you to automatically detect the device in the network which has been linked and initialize the main parameters for its proper functioning as well, and access to the WEB interface.
  • Page 12 Done this procedure you can boot MG Device Wiz from Start/Programs/STE02W Management folder or from the directory where you chose to install the program. The installation procedure will create a new folder, STE02W, and MG Device Wiz will be installed.

  • Page 13: Configuring Device With 'Mg Device Wiz

    4.2.2 Configuring device with ‘MG Device Wiz’ Figure 11: MG Device Wiz: Welcome Page. Verify that you have followed the steps and press ‘Next’, or press ‘Cancel’ to exit the wizard.
  • Page 14 Figure 12: MG Device Wiz: Devices List. Figure 12 shows the list of STE02W devices detected in the local network; you can update this list by clicking on the ‘Refresh’ button. Select the device that you want to configure and press ‘Next’...
  • Page 15 Figure 13: MG Device Wiz: configuring network parameters. In the window shown in Figure 13, you can assign to the selected device a static IP address, mask and gateway, or set up automatic selection of these parameters using DHCP. After the selection of options, press ‘Next’. Also in this case you can press ‘Back’ to...
  • Page 16 Figure 14: MG Device Wiz: Verification of values set. The screenshot in Figure 14 shows the parameters entered on the previous page, press ‘Next’ to send configuration to device. Before proceeding, verify that values shown are correct. After sending the configuration you can run a new configuration to change...
  • Page 17 Figure 15: MG Device Wiz: Device configuration. The window in Figure 15 show advancement in sending data to STE02W; during this process, the device is first configured and subsequently restarted. Do not disconnect or turn off the device during this phase.
  • Page 18 Figure 16: MG Device Wiz: Procedure ended successfully. The window show in Figure 16 appears at the end of the wizard, device has been properly configured with the settings entered by the user. You can press ‘Cancel’ or ‘Finish’ to exit the configuration program. If the device is not visible after the wizard,...
  • Page 19 Figure 17: MG Device Wiz: Configuration error. If while sending the configuration this screen (fig. 17) appears, it means that the parameters previously entered are not correct. Re-run the configuration by entering appropriate values in IP address and Subnet Mask.

  • Page 20: Advanced Configuration

    4.3 Advanced Configuration To run advanced configuration of the system you need to access WEB interface of device that you want to set. This procedure can be started by entering in browser toolbar the device's address, assigned previously, preceded http:// (for example: http://192.168.100.100).

  • Page 21: System Information

    Figure 19: Configuration Home Page. This window displays the currently set network parameters. 4.3.1 System Information Figure 20: System Information. In this section, in ‘General’ tab, you can view some information related to device such as MAC address or Firmware version used. In the ‘Network’ tab you can see some statistics on Internet Protocol (IP, TCP, UDP and ICMP) connections.

  • Page 22: Serial Port – Basic

    Figure 21: Basic Settings. 4.3.2 Serial Port – Basic In this section, using the ‘Basic’ tab, you can change the serial interface parameters. You can select, from its menu, the speed of serial port by choosing a value from 50 bps to 230,4 Kbps.

  • Page 23: Serial Port – Port Services

    (by activating the check-box ‘Strip’ sequence before sending). − When Data Set Ready (DSR) lines goes high: connection to the TCP Server occurs if serial signal DSR is high. Therefore serial device attached to STE02W will activate this signal before proceeding to transmission of data.
  • Page 24 Note: to receive connections by LAN, device must be set in Server mode. For a mono-directional not controlled communication to one or more network devices you will need to enable STE02W as Client UDP by activating its check-box and indicating the condition on which connection is enabled and data are sent: −...

  • Page 25: Serial Port – Advanced

    4.3.4 Serial Port – Advanced In the ‘Advanced’ tab you can enable sending the Socket identifier used for TCP or UDP transmission by clicking its check-box and entering an identifying string of maximum 256 characters. This string is sent to the recipient just before sending the first bytes of the actual information content.

  • Page 26: Network – Basic

    In this case, in order to log in again to STE02W, you need to rerun the configuration with a compatible IP address using the Application Wizard, or modify the IP address of the PC you are using to...

  • Page 27: Network – Wireless

    Figure 26: Wireless Security Attention: if the network parameters of the device STE02W are set incorrectly, this will not be able to connect to network, as well as to connect to any network that is not equipped with a safety standard that conforms to that set.

  • Page 28: Network – Wireless Security

    Figure 27: Security settings for wireless network. Attention: if network security parameters of STE02W device were set incorrectly, this will not be able to connect to network, as well as connect to any network that is not equipped with a safety standard that conforms to that set.

  • Page 29: Network – Network Services

    Server option on device and decide the logical port to use to communicate through serial port protocol (default port 2001). In this way, you can also configure STE02W through appropriate command strings sent with a session of Telnet communication (using, in this case, logical port 23).

  • Page 30: Alarms

    4.3.10 Alarms Alarm on Serial Signals. This section lists all the configuration parameters for alert events and decide the recipients to receive e-mail notification. This function can be enabled with the check-box ‘Enable Sending Alarms’. Then enter the SMTP Server Address used for sending emails and a (virtual) address e-mail with which you will present the device as the sender (From:).
  • Page 31 Because the STE02W alarm notifies you by sending an e-mail, you should verify at same time all conditions set for signals state, which must keep at least for a period of time equal to the second set in the ‘Trigger Interval’ (maximum of 99999 seconds).

  • Page 32: Backup/Restore

    4.3.11 Backup/Restore In this section you can save configuration file of the system currently in use. Clicking the ‘Backup’ button you can save with name, in the desired directory, the current system configuration. Similarly you can load a previously saved configuration file, by selecting it through the ‘Browse ...’...

  • Page 33: Reboot

    4.3.12 Reboot From this window, you can restart the device, making actual previously configured settings. Figure 32: Reboot.

  • Page 34: Operating Mode Examples

    5 Operating mode examples 5.1 Realport In this operating mode, you can use STE02W serial port as the PC's serial port by using as a way of communication between PC and Ethernet network. Using the provided driver Real Port, you can then install a virtual PC COM port that corresponds to the serial port of the remote device.

  • Page 35: Serial Bridge

    5.2.2 System Testing Power on the first STE02W and connect it to a serial device, such as a modem. Power on the second STE02W and connect it to device that needs to communicate with remote serial device, open serial port of the latter and verify that exchange of data with the...

  • Page 36: Reset Procedure

    6 Reset Procedure The reset procedure allows you to restore default settings of device STE02W in case of incorrect configuration of network parameters or security system. This procedure involves the reset of all settings of STE02W and is recommended only in case it is impossible to access the device in traditional way to reconfigure the main parameters.
  • Page 37 − Wait until yellow ‘LED Link’ repeat the following sequence of flashes: 5 fast blink– pause – 1 blink – pause – 5 fast blink– pause. − Remove jumper P1 ‘software reset’ without removing power to STE02W; wait about a minute.

  • Page 38: Technical Support

    7 Technical Support MG Hardware & Software Engineering Email: mg@mg-eng.com Web: http://www.mg-eng.com Tel. +39 0337 376568 Fax. +39 0331 379549 Upd. 01/2012...

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