Serial Echo Mode - Ten-Tec OMNI-VII 588 Programmer's Reference Manual

Serial Echo Mode

Serial Echo Mode will enable the OMNI-VII to take bytes received on the serial
interface port and echo them to the Ethernet interface port.
To get into this mode, the Host PC can send a SERIAL_ECHO command to the
OMNI-VII. This command can either turn on or off SERIAL_ECHO mode on the remote
mode OMNI-VII. This mode is independent of whether Serial Passthru is in effect or not.
Format:
Where:
Example1:
NOTE: There is no query for this command. Once it is turned on, then if any serial
For the following example, assume you have a device Barney connected to the
Example:
From PC to OMNI-VII
From PC to OMNI-VII
From OMNI-VII to Serial Interface Device (Barney)
From Barney to OMNI-VII Serial Interface Port
From OMNI-VII to PC via Ethernet Interface
From Barney to OMNI-VII Serial Interface Port
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'*' 'D' <d0> <CR>
'*' = the ASCII '*' symbol (0x2a)
D = the ASCII 'D' character (0x46)
<n> = binary 0 to turn off Serial Echo Mode
= binary 1 to turn ON Serial Echo Mode
*D<0x01> <CR> Instructs the OMNI-VII to enable Serial Echo
Mode.
data byte comes in, it will be echoed to the Ethernet port on this
same "D".
OMNI-VII's serial port that answers to the query "?H", with the
string "HELLO"
*D<0x01><CR>
*E<0x02> ?H <CR> Instructs the OMNI-VII to send out on the
serial interface port the following command stream "?H"
?H
H
EH the E is the query type, the H is the character received.
OMNI-VII Programmer's Reference Guide
(Turns on serial pass echo mode)
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