Programmers Reference; Changing Protocols; Protocol Description - Lightware UMX4x4-Pro User Manual

7. Programmers reference

Users can connect to the matrix through Ethernet or serial port. After establishing
connection, there is no difference between connection types (except some rare cases,
which are uniquely noted).
Lightware matrix routers can be controlled with external devices which can communicate
according to the router protocol. Lightware routers have a special protocol, but to
interoperate with third party devices, a secondary protocol is also provided.
Please see section 4.5 on page 41 about remote operation and connection setup.
7.1.

Changing protocols

The router is equipped with multiple router protocols.
The currently used protocol can be viewed or changed any time on the matrix front panel
(see
7.2.

Protocol description

The protocol description hereinafter stands for Lightware protocol.
The matrices accept commands surrounded by curly brackets - { } - and responds with data
surrounded by round brackets - ( ) - only if a command was successfully executed. All input
commands are converted to uppercase, but respond commands can contain upper and
lower case letters as well.
Legend for control commands:
<in>
<out>
<in²>
<out²>
<loc>
<id>
<id²>
<italic>
CrLf
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4.5.5 ) or with protocol commands.
= input number in 1 or 2 digit ASCII format (01,5,07,16 etc.)
= output number in 1 or 2 digit ASCII format
= input number in 2 digit ASCII format (01, 02, 10, 12 etc.)
= output number in 2 digit ASCII format (01, 02, 10, 12 etc.)
= location number in 1, 2 or 3 digit ASCII format
= id number in 1 or 2 digit ASCII format
= id number in 2 digit ASCII format
= italic parameters are optional
= Carriage return, Line feed (0x0D, 0x0A)
= space character (0x20)
= each command issued by the controller
= each response received from the router
Section 7. Programmers reference