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4.  Select 

serial connection

 and choose the 

correct COM-port (in this case COM1). If 
you do not know which COM-port of your 
computer is used, look in the Windows 
Device Manager. Take the following 
steps to do this: 

a.  Open Windows Explorer 

(W E on your keyboard). 

b.  Right click on 

computer

 and go to 

Properties

c.  Press on 

Device Manager 

(left 

upper side of the screen). 

d.  Go to 

Ports (COM & LPT)

. If you 

connected serial search the 

Communications Port (

in this 

case:

 COM1)

. If you use an USB-

to-Serial converter search for a 

USB serial Port 

(Figure 9).  

5.  If the correct COM Port is not in the list 

behind 

serial connection

, choose in the 

COM Port selection box 

new connection 

(Figure 10).  

6.  Press 

Next

7.  Select the correct serial port behind 

Serial Port

 (Figure 11) and give the 

connection a name behind 

Connection 

Name

. Always use for the name 

“COMX_auto”. X is in this case the port 
number. 

8.  Press 

Finish.

 The connection will be 

established and all the functionality 
(including updating a receiver) of 
RxControl can be used now. If the 
connection is not established try a null 
modem (00-289-2430374) in the serial 
cable.   

 

 

Figure 8 RxControl - Change connection

 

Figure 9 Windows Explorer - Ports

 

Figure 10 RxControl - Create new connection

 

Figure 11 RxControl - Configure new connection

 

Summary of Contents for viper 4+

Page 1: ...CONFIGURATION MANUAL Viper 4 service manual ...

Page 2: ... I V1 0 Viper 4 service manual EN V1 0 I Pag 2 9 Content 1 Remote Support 3 2 Connect to internal Septentrio GPS receiver 5 3 Connect to internal Satel radio modem 7 4 Capture screenshots on a Viper 4 8 5 COM Port overview 9 ...

Page 3: ...s in the displayed screen of the SBGuidance Loader Request Support Figure 3 or on the button with the red circle in SBGuidance Figure 2 A session ID appears The customer should give the session ID to the technical service specialist 3 Go to the SlingShot Portal https portal ravenslingshot com 4 Login to the SlingShot Portal 5 Go to Manage Remote support 6 Fill in the received session ID from the c...

Page 4: ...I V1 0 Viper 4 service manual EN V1 0 I Pag 4 9 7 A screen like Figure 5 appears The technical service specialist is able to take over all the functionality of the screen similar to TeamViewer Figure 5 Remote Support session ...

Page 5: ...tor is located nearby the first DT connector in the cable In the Harness In cab terminal VPR4 SBG13711 09 the nmea connector is located just behind the Viper 4 field computer When you use a Harness SBG VPR4 Adapter M12 SBG13711 11 use the NMEA output connector with a NMEA cable SBG10880 to connect 2 Open Septentrio RxControl on your computer If Septentrio RxControl is not available on your compute...

Page 6: ...converter search for a USB serial Port Figure 9 5 If the correct COM Port is not in the list behind serial connection choose in the COM Port selection box new connection Figure 10 6 Press Next 7 Select the correct serial port behind Serial Port Figure 11 and give the connection a name behind Connection Name Always use for the name COMX_auto X is in this case the port number 8 Press Finish The conn...

Page 7: ...the SBG website 3 Go to Program Preferences see red circle in Figure 13 4 Choose in the serial port section the correct port and baudrate 19200 see green circle in Figure 13 If you do not know which COM port of your computer is used look in the Windows Device Manager In point 4 of chapter 2 is explained how to do this 5 If the correct port is entered press Connect The blue status bar at the top of...

Page 8: ... Figure 14 If this is successful you get a message that a screenshot has been saved Figure 15 3 Go to Info System Debug 4 Press on the export button see red circle in Figure 16 The screenshots will be exported together with all the other diagnostics data logs error log and trace log to a diagnostics folder on your USB drive This can take a couple of minutes Make sure that you only remove the USB d...

Page 9: ...GPS receiver setup wizard in the SBGuidance Configurator Figure 17Figure 17 See Table 1 for an overview of the COM ports on a Viper 4 Port name Viper 4 Port name Viper 4 Description dev ttymxc0 COM4 VRA NMEA2 on Viper 4 terminal harness dev ttymxc2 COM1 AsteRx4 GPS receiver dev ttyUSB1 COM5 Radio COM5 on Viper 4 terminal harness dev ttyUSB2 COM3 COM3 on Viper 4 terminal harness Table 1 Port overvi...

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