ASTRA GPI Extender
Technical Reference Sheet
SETTING UP THE DEVICE
IP CONFIGURATION
The IP address for the device is set up using EthernetConifugrator (works in wine, located at
\\aveco\d-
disk\Inst\Papouch
or available for download at:
http://www.papouch.com/cz/shop/product/
quido-eth-2-32-vstupy-rele-a-teplomer-lan/
). After setting up the IP address, use the telnet
interface on port
9999
to set up the device.
Note:
When setting up the IP address (or updating the firmware), don’t forget to check your firewall settings
and change the IP address of your PC so that it is in the same network, as a device.
FIRMWARE UPDATE
Confirm that your device has the latest firmware and perform a firmware update if the latest version is not
already installed. The current firmware is version 10. Contact Aveco to confirm that there is not a later version.
If you are using the new XPORT model of the GPI extender (MAC addresses start with 0080) you must
use the firmware
xpt05quido_aveco_v10.lxc
. For older models (MAC addresses start with 0020), use
quido_aveco_v10.lxc
.
STEP-BY-STEP FIRMWARE UPDATE
1. Plug in the device to power it on.
2. Run
PEFLoader.exe
.
3. Click
open
and select the LXC file (if there is only one LXC file in the folder, it will be selected
automatically).
4. Enter the IP address of the device and select
Load to Device!
5. After the firmware has loaded, open the command prompt and access telnet configuration for the device
using the following command:
telnet [IP address] 9999
6. After submitting the command, quickly press
Enter
. This will open the configuration settings.
7. Set up the default telnet configuration: Choose
7
and confirm. Then choose
9
and confirm.
Warning:
If you do not configure the device this way, it will not operate properly.
8. Reset the device by unplugging and plugging in the PSU.
9. Check the internal WEBsite to confirm the firmware was updated successfully.
VERIFY CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
After updating the firmware, the device can be tested using Spinel Terminal (if you do not have a real or virtual
system set up for Spinel it; it is available at
https://www.papouch.com/cz/website/mainmenu/
spinel/
). Connect to the device using UDP connection at port
10001
. You can then try to send commands
(section Quido) to turn on/off GPIs. Here are some useful commmands:
Command
Function
B1?\r\n
get device version (1 is device address)
B$OS5H\r\n
set output 5 to state H or L
B1OR0\r\n
read output state (0 means all outputs, 1 means first otput etc.)
Note:
Characters
\r\n
are mandatory. If there is only one quido device, you can use the universal address
$
as the device address.
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© Apr. 2019 Aveco | TRS-1014-04
