Appendix A – Product Specific BCS Commands
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Instruction Manual – BCS Basic Control Structure Protocol
Heritage Systems
Note:
If you have a heritage product (a discontinued product, i.e., not listed in the previous pages),
refer to this section. Typically, older heritage products use BCS commands similar to the way the
1Y Series does.
1Y Series, 4Y-DM, 8Y-DM, and 8Y-XL
1Y Series, 4Y-DM, 8Y-DM, and 8Y-XL systems support the following items:
General Commands
Executing and disconnecting* switches (see page 6 and page 7)
Verifying signal status (see page 8)
Defining and executing global presets (see page 11)**
* The heritage products 4Y-DM, 8Y-DM, and 8Y-XL do not support the Disconnect command.
** The 1Y and the 4Y-DM are the only heritage products that support global presets.
Specific Commands and Conditions
Does not support local presets
Some models may be case-sensitive and require BCS commands to be entered in all caps
Tip:
If the response to a command string contains the characters “
?
” or “
x
”, instead of the characters
you entered, re-enter the command with all capital letters.
BCS commands can be used to program and change the configuration word on some heritage systems.
The configuration word is a hexadecimal number that tells the matrix how to set the baud rate, choose
the number of SBCs to poll, and whether or not to echo serial commands on the control panel. For
instructions on changing the configuration word, see the
Instruction Manual
– 1Y Series Matrix Switchers
at
www.amx.com
.
8Y-3000
8Y-3000 systems support the following items:
General Commands
Executing and disconnecting switches (see page 6 and page 7)
Verifying signal status (see page 8)
Executing local presets – predefined in XNConnect (see page 10)
Defining and executing global presets (see page 11)
Specific Commands and Conditions
8Y-3000 models with Application Code v 1.2.0 or later support fragmented status reporting
(see page 9)
8Y-3000 models with Application Code v 2.4.2 or later support a limited set of system error
codes. Error code reporting is always enabled by default and cannot be turned off
(see page 41)