MSC-CP59X59E Product Manual
matrix status. The <CR> is the Carriage Return character.
3.3.1 Command Names
Command names consist of one or more alphabetical characters and are case
insensitive
. For convenience with
manual command entry they can also be matched using partial names. The first matching alphabetically sorted
command is used (for example: 'H', 'He', 'hEL' or 'Help' can be used to execute the Help command). However,
this feature should not be relied on with 3
rd
party integration, since a given partial command may execute a
different command as new ones are added to the protocol.
3.4 Response Format
Most command responses consist of one or more values separated by newlines and ending with the ‘>’ prompt
character.
Newlines
consist of a Carriage Return/New Line (CR LF) pair of characters (ASCII 13 followed by
ASCII 10).
The Prompt ‘>’
A prompt character ‘>’ is displayed each time a command or chain of commands is entered, to indicate
readiness to receive additional commands. If an error occurs in response to a command, an error will be
displayed prior to the prompt with the following format:
E00: Error message
>
00 will contain a 2 digit decimal error code.
Table 4 shows possible error codes which may be returned in response to commands.
Error # Message
Description
E01
Token too long
A command name or string argument was too long.
E02
Invalid command
Invalid command name.
E03
Invalid argument
One or more invalid argument values.
E04
Invalid destination
Invalid matrix destination number.
E05
Invalid source
Invalid matrix source number.
E06
Invalid level
Invalid matrix level number.
E07
Invalid preset
Invalid preset number.
E08
Unterminated string
Double or single quoted string not terminated.
E09
Backspace limit
reached
Devices have a limited backspace buffer size, if too many characters are
backspaced and then more characters are appended, this error will occur.
E10
Buffer overflow
Data exceeds maximum buffer length.
E11
Serial receive overrun
One or more characters were lost on the serial interface.
E12
Unsupported command Command is not supported by the system or current configuration.
Firmware 5.3.0 and newer.
E13
I/O Error
A general I/O error occurred.
Table 4: Error Codes
3.5 Command Arguments
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