Diagnostic Tools - Lightware MX-FR Series User Manual

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6. Software Control – Lightware Device Controller Software
The Baudrate line contains the speed of the communication. The baud rate is determined by the TX side of
a serial communication: the receiver follows the setting of the output board and the input board follows the
setting of the transmitter. The Periphery receive determines what the incoming data will be. If it is "disabled",
the response will be ignored. The data can be sent as ASCII characters or numbers as binary data. Select
the appropriate value from the list.
RS-232 Aerminal
The RS-232 commands can be sent via this terminal or protocol commands (for protocol commands see the
Programmer's Reference chapter). The displayed text can be ASCII or Hexadecimal format but it affects only
the visualization of the terminal text. If the typed text contains escape characters check the first checkbox.
Add terminating CRLF add CarriageReturn and LineFeed after every line when the Enter key was hit or the
Send button is pushed with a mouse click.
The terminal window can be cleared with the Clear button, but if the autoscroll checkbox is active, it shows
the last commands. If the command to be sent consists hexadecimal bytes (00 .. FF) check the Hexadecimal
checkbox under the input line.
Serial Port Extension Parameters (TPS boards)
Supported Boards:
MX-TPS-IB, -TPS2-IB, -TPS-OB, -TPS2-OB
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The structure of the RS-232 terminal window is almost the same as in the case of the optical boards.
RS-232 Terminal (MX-TPS2-OB-AP board)
MX-FR Series Modular Matrix Frames – User's Manual
6.5.2. Diagnostic Aools
6.5.2.1. Frame Detector
The ports can show detailed information about the signal like blanking intervals and active video resolution.
This feature is a good troubleshooter if compatibility problems occur during system installation. To access
this function, open the port properties window and click on Frame detector button.
Lightware's Frame Detector function works like a signal analyzer and makes possible to determine the exact
video format that is present on the port, thus helps to identify many problems. D.g. actual timing parameters
may differ from the expected and this may cause some displays to drop the picture.
Frame Detector measures detailed timings on the video signals just like a built-in oscilloscope, but it is much
more easy to use. Actual display area shows the active video size (light gray). Dark gray area of the full frame
is the blanking interval which can contain the info frames and embedded audio data for HDMI signals.
Shown values are measured actually on the signal and not retrieved only from the HDMI info frames.
Frame Detector Window
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