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D014465 CR1400 CR1000 CR2300 CR2600 CR3600 CR44X5 CR8000 CR900FD CR6000 CR5000 T500 Client Version ICD
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In order to eliminate inadvertent commanding of the Reader, Text Commands are disabled by
default.
To enable Text Commands requires an initial sequence: ;>PAx where x is as defined in section 9,
register 41. (Note: ‘A’ is the ASCII character that corresponds to 41 HEX.)
For example, to send the Reader commands by typing commands in HyperTerminal:
;>PA1
P(xx)yy
P(xx)yy
W
PA8
Where ;>PA1 enables text commands with echo and command responses, P%xxyy can be any desired
commands, W saves the settings just sent by the P command, and PA8 turns text commands back off
(except for the initial sequence). (Note: ‘A’ is the ASCII character that corresponds to 41 hex, thus
P%418 would be equivalent.)
Note: ;>PA1 is used for interactive text commands. If the commands are to be saved in a file and sent
non-interactively, use ;>PA7 instead; this enables text commands but disables echo and command
responses. (See Section 7.3, Section 9, and Section 10 for additional information.)
With text commands enabled, the following two examples can be sent to a Reader in RS232 mode
from HyperTerminal by just typing the example text.
Example 1 - Make the Reader beep/vibrate 3 times (Note: Readers with a vibration motor are the
CR1400, CR1400XHD, CR1428, CR2600, CR2600XHD, CR3600, CR3600DPM and CR6000.):
#%03 Expected output: should make Reader beep/vibrate 3 times
Example 2 - Set Reader to continuous-read, High Density field (FOI 0) only:
P(C4)5 Expected output: should set Reader to continuous-read, High Density field (FOI 0) only
7.2
Packetized Commands
Packetized commands consist of packetized data sent from Host to Reader to configure and cause the
Reader to perform certain functionalities (e.g. CodeXML
®
rules, and settings). Packetized commands
are always enabled, unlike text commands. In addition, they include error detection data, making them
more robust than text commands.
Language Part
Definition
normal-
command
prefix command-type data-size data
opt
reserved crc14
prefix
0xEE 0xEE 0xEE 0xEE
command-type
Single ASCII character in the set defined in section 7.3
data-size
byte value in range [0,240], which indicates size of data (in bytes)
