Kramer FC-26, User Manual

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Overview 5
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Is housed in a compact, Kramer TOOLS
™ enclosure which can be mounted
side by side in a 19-inch rack using suitable rack adapters
Figure 1: FC-26 Controlling Devices Remotely Using K-Touch 3.0 over a LAN
Using K-Touch 3.0 you can design advanced room-control and automation
systems that can be operated from iOS or Android touch devices. K-Touch 3.0
can be used to perform device discovery over the network as the FC-26 is set to
be a DHCP client by default.
You can use the Kramer LAN Configurator software to discover devices that are
attached to the network, including the FC-26 .
The FC-26 includes the Virtual Serial Port Manager (Kramer VSPM) for
compatibility with applications based on COM-port communication. Virtual Serial
Port Manager:

Makes the FC-26 compatible with all Windows
®
-based applications which
require a physical COM port. This includes all versions of K-Router and
other Kramer control applications. It lets you operate all RS-232 controllable
devices via an Ethernet LAN using their existing PC software

Allows virtual serial ports to operate like physical COM ports, that is, logical
COM ports that behave exactly like a standard hardware COM port. In
reality, it transparently reroutes the data using the TCP/IP network to the
FC-26 interface via a virtual connection which you can emulate over the
Ethernet or Internet

Allows the creation of any number of serial ports on your PC which do not
occupy any physical serial ports