Remote Access By Modem - Teledyne T200 Operation Manual

Remote Operation
8.2.1.4. STATUS REPORTING
8.2.1.5. GENERAL MESSAGE FORMAT

8.3. REMOTE ACCESS BY MODEM

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Reporting of status messages as an audit trail is one of the three principal uses for the
RS-232 interface (the other two being the command line interface for controlling the
instrument and the download of data in electronic format). You can effectively disable
the reporting feature by setting the interface to quiet mode (Section 6.2.1, Table 6-1).
Status reports include warning messages, calibration and diagnostic status messages.
Refer to Appendix A-3 for a list of the possible messages, and this for information on
controlling the instrument through the RS-232 interface.
All messages from the instrument (including those in response to a command line
request) are in the format:
X DDD:HH:MM [Id] MESSAGE<CRLF>
Where:
X is a command type designator, a single character indicating the
message type, as shown in the Table 8-2.
DDD:HH:MM is the time stamp, the date and time when the message was issued. It
consists of the Day-of-year (DDD) as a number from 1 to 366, the hour
of the day (HH) as a number from 00 to 23, and the minute (MM) as a
number from 00 to 59.
[ID] is the analyzer ID, a number with 1 to 4 digits.
MESSAGE is the message content that may contain warning messages, test
measurements, variable values, etc.
<CRLF> is a carriage return / line feed pair, which terminates the message.
The uniform nature of the output messages makes it easy for a host computer to parse
them into an easy structure. Keep in mind that the front panel display does not give any
information on the time a message was issued, hence it is useful to log such messages
for troubleshooting and reference purposes. Terminal emulation programs such as
HyperTerminal can capture these messages to text files for later review.
The T200 can be connected to a modem for remote access. This requires a cable
between the analyzer‟s COM port and the modem, typically a DB-9F to DB-25M cable
(available from Teledyne API with P/N WR0000024).
Once the cable has been connected, check to ensure that:
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The DTE-DCE is in the DCE position.
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The T200 COM port is set for a baud rate that is compatible with the modem,
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The Modem is designed to operate with an 8-bit word length with one stop bit.
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The MODEM ENABLE communication mode is turned ON (Mode 64, see Section
6.2.1).
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