The manufacturer shall not be held legally responsible for inaccuracies, errors, or omissions in the manual or automatically set parameters for a device or for an incorrect application of a device. BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 2 of 37...
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• When working on devices the valid safety regulations must be observed. Reference table of the devices object of this manual: Communication Code Antenna Interface 5233HM Profibus One External Channel BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 3 of 37...
Locking a Data Block of an ISO 15693 Transponder ...... 26 3.23 ISO 15963 Transponder ‘Get System Info’ Command ....26 3.24 ISO 15963 Transponder ‘General Protocol’ Command ....28 Supported Transponders ..............30 ‘.GSD’ File ..................32 BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 4 of 37...
BLUEBOX can only be modified by the ‘slave’ that is the BLUEBOX. The aim of the cyclic communication is to keep up to date the corresponding buffers at the ‘master’ side and at the ‘slave’ side. At the application level, a specific protocol has been defined for enabling the...
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The is available with 1 external RF antenna (item 5233HM). Compared to the BLUEBOX GEN2 INDUSTRIAL HF SR device (item 5233H), BLUEBOX GEN2 INDUSTRIAL HF MR device (item 5233HM) differs for the following reasons: •...
If not required, the ‘continuous’ identification activity can be disabled through a flag defined in the general parameters. In this case, the BLUEBOX will only execute the ‘on request’ commands already defined above. BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 7 of 37...
BLUEBOX send a command or an answer to the • Incoming data packets to the ‘master’ (PLC) from the ‘slave’ (BLUEBOX) carrying for example the answer to a command In the following example, a buffer length of 16 bytes is supposed.
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If the length of the message is bigger than 14 bytes, the message will be composed of more than 1 data packet; in this case the header of all the transmitted data packets, apart the last one, will present at ‘1’ the flag ‘More’ BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 10 of 37...
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The bit 7 of the first byte of the header of the incoming buffer of the ‘master’ device will be indicate as ‘T’ (toggle) because we suppose that the ‘slave’ is running correctly. BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 11 of 37...
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(length) and the data bytes of the first 14 data bytes of the answer and then sets to ‘1’ the flag ‘More’ (another data packet will follow) and the flag ‘Req rx’ for the ‘master’. 2° 1° Byte Data Byte BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 12 of 37...
Byte Value Description Notes 0x30 Command code The answer to this command is given in short form through the ‘Reply Ack’ / ‘Reply Nak’ flags (this command don’t ‘produce’ data). BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 13 of 37...
= 16 The 16 bytes (2 to 17) are a string of 16 ASCII chars that defines the firmware version. The general form is: ‘BB_TWO_HM y.yy ‘; y.yy gives the firmware version (example 1.16). BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 14 of 37...
It is also possible to get the firmware version of the HFM reader module mounted in the BLUEBOX. Byte Value Description Notes 0x34 Command code 0x01 Module number If command is not successfully executed, the answer is given in short form through the ‘Reply Ack’...
Byte Value Description Notes 0x29 Command code 0x.. Year value thousands and hundereds. BCD encoded byte. 0x.. Year value tens and units. BCD encoded byte. 0x.. Month value tens and units. BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 16 of 37...
BLUEBOX (command ‘Device Reset’) in order to apply these new parameters. Profibus Network Parameters Reading This command is used to get the values of the Profibus communication parameters (address and length of buffers) of the BLUEBOX. Byte Value Description Notes BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM...
Description Notes 0x2F Command code 0xFF Don’t care value 0xFF suggested value 0x48 Don’t care value 0x48 suggested value 0x20 Don’t care value 0x20 suggested value 0x01 Don’t care value 0x01 suggested value BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 18 of 37...
0x.. Don’t care value Filter time: • Decimal 0 … 99 for time in seconds (0 … 0x.. 99 seconds) • Decimal 100 … 199 for time in minutes (0 … 99 minutes) BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 19 of 37...
• Bit 5 … bit 1: not used • Bit 0: to disable ‘continuous’ mode 3.12 Default parameters programming This command is used to set the default values of the communication and operating parameters of the BLUEBOX. Byte Value Description...
• Bit 1: Input 2 status (1=activated) • Bit 0: Input 1 status (1=activated) 3.15 RF Deactivation In ‘continuous’ mode, this command is used to suspend the activity of the RF antennas connected to the BLUEBOX; see also ‘RF activation’ command. Byte Value Description...
Transponder type. See Annexe A for 0x.. type assigment table. 0x.. Transponder UID, 1 st byte 0x.. Transponder UID, i th byte i < n 0x.. Transponder UID, 8 th byte 8 = UID length BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 22 of 37...
0x.. Data of the block, 1 st byte i < n 0x.. Data of the block, i th byte n depends on the specific 0x.. Data of the block, n th byte transponder BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 24 of 37...
Status block not supported or errors c) if the addressed transponder is present and the block has been correctly written: Byte Value Description Notes 0x12 Command code 0x00 Status ok block successfully written BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 25 of 37...
This command is used to get the system info data block of a known (UID) ISO 15693 transponder. For more details see the specific transponder data sheet. Byte Value Description Notes 0x14 Command code BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 26 of 37...
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Transponder UID, i th byte i < 8 0x.. Transponder UID, 8 th byte Present only if bit 0 of Info 0x.. DSFID Flags is set Present only if bit 1 of Info 0x.. Flags is set BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 27 of 37...
0x01 Status no transponder b) if some error is occurred during the transaction: Byte Value Description Notes 0x15 Command code 0x02 Status error c) if the transponder is present: Byte Value Description Notes BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 28 of 37...
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Data received from the tag, 1 st byte 0x.. Data received from the tag, i th byte i < n n depends on the specific 0x.. Data received from the tag, n th byte protocol command response BLUEBOX Gen.2 HFM Page 29 of 37...
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