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- Page 1 Brainboxes Industrial Ethernet to Serial Product Manual Brainboxes Limited, 18 Hurricane Drive, Liverpool International Business Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RL Tel: +44 (0)151 220 2500 Fax: +44 (0)151 252 0446 Web: www.Brainboxes.com Email: sales@Brainboxes.com...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Installing Ethernet to Serial Device Driver (Windows 7) ............... 15 Windows Installation: Boost.LAN Manager Application (Windows 8) ..........17 Windows Installation: Device Driver (Windows 8) ................20 Finding your Brainboxes COM port ...................... 21 ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 2 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... - Page 3 Device Management ..........................41 Security ..............................42 Administrator Access Settings ......................42 User Access Settings ........................42 MAC Address restriction ........................43 Restricting “Reset/Restore Default” ....................43 ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 3 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
- Page 4 Company Accreditation ........................52 Europe – EU Declaration of Conformity ....................52 WEEE Directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) ............52 RoHS Compliance ..........................53 Copyright ............................53 ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 4 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
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Page 5: Introduction
1. Introduction The Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial industrial product range brings the benefits of fast data access and remote management to asynchronous serial devices by connecting them to the existing local network infrastructure within your industrial environment. Designed and built on-site with close collaboration between the hardware and software teams to deliver a product that is both user-friendly and has plenty of functionality. -
Page 6: Before You Start
If any of the items are missing from your box or damaged in anyway please contact support@Brainboxes.com Supported Operating Systems The Ethernet to Serial industrial product range can be used in the following Microsoft Operating Systems with the supplied Boost.LAN drivers: ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 6 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 7: System Requirements
Windows XP 32-bit Windows XP 64-bit Windows 2000 Brainboxes Boost.LAN drivers have undergone extensive Microsoft testing with the ES industrial range. Upon passing these tests, the drivers were signed by Microsoft, as an indication of their quality and stability. It is also possible to use the ES industrial devices with a Linux system. See Section 10 for full details. -
Page 8: Usability Features
Smart Ethernet which automatically detects the polarity of the Ethernet connection so either a • straight through or crossover Ethernet cable can be used. Dual power supply input, for enhanced reliability. • Functional ground to DIN rail. • ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 8 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 9: Hardware Features
Can be connected to as a Windows COM port, as a Raw TCP socket, or using the RFC2217 standard Serial cable length: 1200 meters / 4000 feet maximum ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 9 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 10: Rs-422/485 Half Duplex Serial Port
Serial Port LED Green light on Port Open Flashing light on Data RX/TX Link LED Green light on Link established Flashing Green Data RX / TX ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 10 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 11: Terminal Block Connector Pin Out
Web Server Port Port Settings Port Mode RS-422 Baud rate 115200 Databits Stop bits Parity Flow Control None Duplex mode Full Duplex Protocol Settings Telnet Mode (Server) ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 11 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 12: Device Swapping
COM port drivers. Configuring from here is the recommended option for ease and convenience, as it centralises all Ethernet to Serial devices. See Section 5 for information about Boost.LAN Manager. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 12 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 13: Configuration Using Boost.lan Manager
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY Boost.LAN Manager application is the graphical user interface for locating and configuring all Brainboxes’ Ethernet to Serial devices in Windows. Boost.LAN Manager is the COM ports device driver that you will use in Windows to access your ES ports as standard Windows COM ports. You need Boost.LAN Manager to install the Boost.LAN COM ports driver. -
Page 14: Windows Installation: Boost.lan Manager Application (Windows 7)
Windows Installation: Boost.LAN Manager Application (Windows 7) With the computer turned on, insert the Boost.LAN Driver CD. This should launch the Brainboxes Navigation Page. Note: If the navigation page does not auto load, go to Start My Computer Right Click the CD and select Explore. Click “Install” to launch the Boost.LAN Setup.exe program. -
Page 15: Installing Ethernet To Serial Device Driver (Windows 7)
2. Click on “File > Find Devices” in the top left hand side of the window. This will find any Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial devices connected to your network. 3. You can find your Brainboxes ES device by selecting a device and matching it with the corresponding MAC address available in the left hand panel (see below). The MAC address of your device is located on a sticker on the side of the ES device. - Page 16 ‘Online – Device Installed’ section in the main window of Boost.LAN Manager. 9. You can check the COM Number of the port by following the instructions in the section: Finding your Brainboxes COM port If you need to change the COM port number, see Changing Your COM Label ES Industrial Range ©...
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Page 17: Windows Installation: Boost.lan Manager Application (Windows 8)
2. This will bring up a new menu. Select the ‘Open folder to view files’ option. 3. Click on the setup.exe file to begin the installation on the Boost.LAN manager application. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 17 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... - Page 18 Serial devices through your firewall. Enable the tick box to continue the installation procedure. 6. You will now be asked to confirm whether or not you wish to carry on installing the software. Click next. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 18 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
- Page 19 7. The software will now begin to install. 8. After the installation has finished, you will now see the below window. Click close. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 19 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
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Page 20: Windows Installation: Device Driver (Windows 8)
1. Click on the “File > Find Devices” in the top left hand side of the window. This will find any Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial devices connected to your network. You can find your Brainboxes ES-device by selecting a device and matching it with the corresponding MAC address available in the left hand panel (see below). The MAC address of your device is located on a sticker on the side of the ES device. -
Page 21: Finding Your Brainboxes Com Port
3. Find the “COM Ports” section in the left hand pane. Changing your COM label 1. If you need to change the COM label, find your Brainboxes COM port (using the section Finding your Brainboxes COM port) then double click on the port entry in Boost.LAN Manager. -
Page 22: Changing The Ip Address
The device name is the name which the device will use when it is displayed on your network. To change the device name, click on the link in the “Device Info” section in the left hand panel of Boost.LAN Manager. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 22 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 23: Changing Port Settings
The Port Settings allow you to set Default or Override Settings for the serial communication and set how the device will deal with incoming hardware handshaking events. To change the port settings, open Boost.LAN Manager and double click on the Brainboxes •... -
Page 24: Cts Always True
NB: When the ES device is set to RS-422/485 mode, the RTS/CTS handshaking is not supported. As a result, “CTS Always true” will be enabled by default. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 24 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 25: Advanced Settings - Tcp/Ip Settings & Mac Address
Advanced Settings – TCP/IP Settings & MAC Address The TCP/IP Settings for the Brainboxes COM Port allow you to view the ES device’s TCP/IP settings and MAC. To open Advanced Settings open Windows Device Manager, expand the ‘Ports (COM &... -
Page 26: Adding A Device Manually Using Boost.lan Manager
2. Enter the IP address of your device into the ‘Device IP Address’ field, and the web server port number into the ‘Device Port Number’ field. 3. Click the ‘Next’ button. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 26 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 27: Exporting & Importing Device Settings
2) Find and select your installed ES Device. 3) On the left hand panel of the window, scroll down to the “Other Tasks” section. 4) Select “Export Settings” ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 27 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 28: Importing Device Settings
5) Browse to the location of the settings file. 6) Select the file and press Open 7) The settings will then be imported onto the device. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 28 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 29: Rebooting Device
2) Find and select the ES device. 3) On the left hand side of the window, scroll down to the “Other Tasks” section 4) Select “Restore Factory Settings” ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 29 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 30: Firmware Upgrade
2) Make a note of the current firmware version on the left hand panel. 3) Visit Brainboxes website, http://www.Brainboxes.com/faqs and locate the latest firmware version for your device. Alternatively, contact Brainboxes Technical Support via support@Brainboxes.com and request the latest firmware version be sent to you. ES Industrial Range ©... -
Page 31: Uninstallation
4) If the firmware online or received by Brainboxes Technical Support is a later version, download and save the file to a location you will remember NB: If the firmware is NOT a later version, do not proceed with the upgrade. - Page 32 3) The Brainboxes Boost.LAN Suite will then be uninstalled. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 32 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
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Page 33: Configuration Using The Webpage
Home page The Home page of the ES device is mainly for informational purposes whilst the other pages allow you to update various configuration options. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 33 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... - Page 34 Clicking on the “Configure” link will take you to the serial port configuration pages where you can change the settings for the device. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 34 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
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Page 35: Network Page
UPnP. This will ensure that when Boost.LAN is opened, the installed device will be displayed in the Boost.LAN device manager panel. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 35 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 36: Serial Port Page
Protocol Settings Protocol Type – Raw TCP: Data sent over the network is the same as the data sent over the serial link. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 36 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 37: Rs-422/485 Settings
To solve this; at each end of the RS-485 bus, add a pull up and a pull down resistor to put the line into a known, good state during idle times. Brainboxes products have factory fitted bias resistors that are jumper enabled. - Page 38 Jumpers can be placed vertically across any of the 3 sets of pins explained as thus below:- B+ and B- = are bias resistors. T = Termination resistor ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 38 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
- Page 39 For a half-duplex multi-drop bus, where the device is not at the end of the bus but somewhere in the middle. Or depending on whether biasing is already presented somewhere. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 39 of 53 Product Manual V3.3...
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Page 40: Serial Tunnelling
Serial Tunnelling Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial industrial devices have a feature called serial tunnelling. Serial tunnelling connects two devices together to create a serial tunnel which extends the serial link over an Ethernet connection. When serial data is sent, it is converted to Ethernet packets by one ES industrial device, transmitted over the network, then unpacked and converted back to serial data by the other ES industrial device. -
Page 41: Device Management
Restore Factory Default: Restoring the factory default will revert all the settings of the device back to the factory defaults and then reboot the device. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 41 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 42: Security
5. To access the web interface of the device again, you will be prompted with a log in prompt. Only an administrator or user will be able to log in. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 42 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 43: Mac Address Restriction
Everybody: This will restrict the ability to reset or restore to those with an administrator or user account Admin only: This will restrict the ability to reset or restore to the administrator only. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 43 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 44: Authentication Method
Basic Authentication Challenge: Log on credentials are passed as plaintext over the network. Digest Authentication Challenge: Log on credentials are encrypted when sending over the network and as such, more secure than Basic Authentication Challenge. ES Industrial Range © Copyright Brainboxes Ltd Page 44 of 53 Product Manual V3.3... -
Page 45: Testing Your Es Device
8. Testing your ES Device In order to prove that your Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial industrial device is functioning correctly, you can perform a loopback test to check the Transmit and Receive lines are working and that you can access the device over the network. -
Page 46: Advanced Network Configuration
69 (TFTP Port) Default Windows Firewall Exception entries: Brainboxes Boost.LAN Suite • Brainboxes Boost.LAN Suite (Device discovery) (except Windows XP 32 & 64 bits) • UPnP Framework (Windows XP 32 & 64 bits) • Network Discovery (Windows 7 or later) •... -
Page 47: Troubleshooting And Testing
There is an easy solution for this; use a Brainboxes 16C950+ UART as it meets the most stringent demands. It has very tight timing characteristics implemented in the hardware. It supports between 60 baud and 1,000,000 baud (1Mb). - Page 48 Check if there is an updated firmware or software driver package for your ES device by contacting Brainboxes Technical Support with your existing software version. Check the status LED behaviour. (See Section 3.
- Page 49 Error page loads When loading the web configuration Check that you have user or admin when trying to load page, the Brainboxes web page access to the device that you are trying web Configuration loads with an error. to load. If the security settings are on...
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Page 50: Linux Support For Es Devices
Linux, including Debian and Ubuntu. After installation, the correct details for the Brainboxes ES ports will need to be added to the • /etc/cyclades-devices file. You will require one configuration line for each port, which contains the following details in a colon separated format;... -
Page 51: Lifetime Warranty And Support
If you have any issues, questions or suggestions about our Products and Services, then please contact us. Technical Support is free*. As long as you have a Brainboxes Product we will be happy to help, even if it’s discontinued or out of warranty. Excellent Customer Service, just as it should be. -
Page 52: Regulatory Approvals / Compliance
Brainboxes’ Responsibilities Brainboxes has a legal responsibility, as producer, to provide a free of charge collection service to our customers for our obligated WEEE. Brainboxes is defined as a producer under the WEEE regulations because we sell own brand Electrical &... -
Page 53: Rohs Compliance
All Brainboxes Serial and Bluetooth products are fully RoHS compliant. Brainboxes identified at an early stage the importance of rapid compliance to RoHS guidelines and established a project team to actively manage the transition. The initial step in the process was to use our close relationships with suppliers to ensure early access to RoHS compliant components for all of our Bluetooth and Serial Products.