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USER MANUAL - PRELIMINARY USB 500T USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio USB 500T USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio PRELIMINARY Observe precautions! Electrostatic sensitive devices! Patent protected: WO98/36395, DE 100 25 561, DE 101 50 128, WO 2004/051591, DE 103 01 678 A1, DE 10309334,...
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As far as patents or other rights of third parties are concerned, liability is only assumed for modules, not for the described applications, processes and circuits. EnOcean does not assume responsibility for use of modules described and limits its liability to the replacement of modules determined to be defective due to workmanship. Devices or systems containing RF components must meet the essential requirements of the local legal authorities.
Introduction ....................4 Technical Data & Environmental Conditions ............5 Block Diagram and Protocol Layers ..............7 Documentation of Protocols and EnOcean Profiles ..........8 Additional Features of USB 500T ..............9 First Steps with USB 500T and DolphinView ............ 10 Product Safety and aditional Hints ..............
USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio 1. INTRODUCTION USB 500T is an EnOcean transceiver module with gateway controller software and USB interface. It can be directly connected to PC’s or smart home servers. Example picture of USB 500T. The USB stick provides bidirectional EnOcean radio protocol to devices with USB interface. Radio mes- sages are sent and received through a virtual serial interface (FTDI Virtual COM Port).
USER MANUAL - PRELIMINARY USB 500T USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio 2. TECHNICAL DATA & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS Features overview Frequency/antenna 921.4 MHz USB 500T / PCB antenna Data rate 125 kBit/s Modulation type USB 500T: FSK 921.4 MHz Receiver Sensitivity (at 25°C) USB 500T: typ.
USER MANUAL - PRELIMINARY USB 500T USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio 3. BLOCK DIAGRAM AND PROTOCOL LAYERS USB 500T Host Sensor/ Actuator UART Interface EnOcean USB to Gateway FTDI Virtual Radio UART Controller COM Port FTDI FT232 Host Sensor/ Controller...
If you want to develop for other host platforms, you can use or adapt available C-source code for Linux OS from FTDI Website: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm USB stick uses EnOcean Serial Protocol 3 for control commands and data communica- tion. A description of ESP 3 is available at: http://www.enocean.com/en/knowledge-base/ ...
5. ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF USB 500T The USB stick can be configured as repeater of EnOcean telegrams; this will expand the range of radio devices. In addition the USB stick can filter EnOcean telegrams; this can avoid heavy data load for the host system.
USER MANUAL - PRELIMINARY USB 500T USB Gateway for EnOcean Radio FIRST STEPS WITH USB 500T AND DOLPHINVIEW 1. Register download and install DolphinView: http://www.enocean.com/en/download/ 2. Plug USBstick to an USB port of the PC. (USB extension cable is recommended for best performance) 3.
USB stick has been designed for usage with DolphinView. For advanced protocol analy- sis and debugging we recommend the usage of EnOcean Developer Kit with Dol- phinView Advanced and DolphinSniffer. USB stick has been optimized for cyclic sending/receiving status values and not for con- ...
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