pulsAR
radio Operator's Manual
4 COMMANDS
4.1 Configuration techniques
You can establish a command session with an Afar radio in any of four different interfaces:
1.
Serial Console
through a 3-pin RS-232 port.
2. With the Afar
EConsole
program running on a PC connected to the radio Ethernet port.
3. Using
Telnet
from anywhere that can reach the radio IP address.
4. Using a
UDP/IP interface
for programming using a host computer.
Serial Console
: To establish a command session on this port all you need is a terminal or PC directly
connected to the radio 3-pin cylindrical connector. Afar provides an adapter cable (CBL-0403-003) to
convert this connector to a DB9 female. By default this port is set as follows:
Baud rate: 9600
Word length: 8 bits
Parity: none
Stop bits: 1
This port allows you to configure and monitor only the local radio, i.e. you can not reach any of the
remote radios through RF. It is often used for bench testing and for setting up device parameters prior
to installation.
Econsole
: This is an Afar program, available on the distribution CD or downloaded from our
website, that runs on a PC Windows or a Linux platform connected to the same Ethernet LAN as the
radio. With Econsole you can reach any local radios and also remote radios across multiple RF hops.
However, Econsole does not cross an IP router. Refer to the separate Econsole User's Manual for
instructions on its installation.
Telnet
: Lets you establish a command session with a radio from anywhere on the Internet. The only
requirement is that the radio must have been pre-configured with an IP address using one of the
previous two interfaces (see
ip-configuration
command). Telnet is explained in more detail in
section 5.
UDP/IP Interface
: This is intended to allow a host computer to issue all the same text commands
available through the other interfaces. Refer to the
udp-configuration
command and section 5.3 for
details.
On power up the radio performs several diagnostic and calibration tests. At the end of these tests it
outputs the command prompt. The default prompt has the following format:
rmt-nnnnn #>
where nnnnn are the last five digits of the radio serial number. The first three characters are an
abbreviation of the
node type
in the network, which may be: hub, rmt, rt1, rt2, bra, lf. If a node
“name” has been assigned to the node, the prompt will be that name.
The “help” command provides a list of all the commands available. To get more detailed help for a
specific command, type “help command-name”.
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