Kathrein RRU 4 series, User Manual

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11 Transmission Methods 29
11.1 UART transmission (RS232, RS422, RS485 or similar) 29
11.1.1 Physical Layer 29
11.1.2 Data Link Layer 29
11.2 LLRP Protocol 30
11.3 Ethernet Transmission 31
11.3.1 Ethernet Transmission Generation 2 Readers 31
11.3.2 Ethernet Transmission Generation 3 Readers 31
12 Connecting the Reader 33
12.1 Connecting Digital Inputs and Outputs 33
12.2 Connecting the Antenna 36
12.3 T urning the Reader On and Off 36
12.4 Reading the PWR LED Indications 36
13 Operating ReaderStart Software 37
13.1 System Requirements 37
13.2 Installing the Software 37
13.3 Connecting the Reader in the
ReaderStart
Software 40
13.3.1 Requirements 40
13.4 Navigating in the ReaderStart User Interface 43
13.4.1 Menu Bar 43
13.4.2 Status Field 57
14 Operating the Reader Using the ReaderStart Software 58
14.1 Communication 58
14.1.1 Ethernet Section 58
14.1.2 Communication Configur ation Linux Module 61
14.2 Application 69
14.2.1 Available Applications 71
14.3 Basic Reading 72
14.3.1 Mode 73
14.3.2 Starting and Stopping the Reading 73
14.3.3 Statistics 74
14.3.4 Options 75
14.3.5 Grouping 76
14.3.6 Expert settings 76
14.3.7 ARU-CSB-ELC Antenna Reader Unit 77
14.4 LED 78
14.4.1 Selecting Functions 79
14.5 RSSI LED Bar (received signal strength indicator) 80
14.6 GPIO Functions 81
14.6.1 IO Configur ation 81
14.6.2 Test Input and Output 82
14.6.3 Action List and Assign Input to Action List 83
14.7 Expert Settings 1 85
14.7.1 Port Power 87
14.8 Expert Settings 2 88
14.8.1 Default Parameter Set 88
14.8.2 Copy Parameter Set 88
14.8.3 Change Reader Parameter 89
14.8.4 Select Filter Settings 89
14.8.5 Applying a Select Filter (Example) 90
14.9 Test Gen 2 Functions 91
14.9.1 Get All Tags 91
14.9.2 Password for Operation 92
14.9.3 Write EPC 92
14.9.4 Read Data 93
14.9.5 Write Data 94