BLE Beacon RS-232 Reader user manual V1.3
2018.06.24
2
2.2 DB9 connector: (Male)
Pin
Signal
DTE Direction
DCE Direction
Description
1
N/A
2
RxD
Output
Input
Transmitted data
3
TxD
Input
Output
Received data
4
N/A
5
GND
Ground
6
N/A
7
RTS
8
CTS
9
Vin
Power Input (5~27 VDC)
2.3 Rear Side:
3. Packet Format:
3.1 All DIP switch is “0” by default. The reader will filter “
Uconnect
”, “
iBeacon
”,
“
Eddystone
” or “
Altbeacon
”.
$<msg type>,<reader id>,<tag type>,<tag id>,<battery>,<button>,<G-sensor>,<sensor>,<RSSI>#
Field
Description
$
start of report
msg type
Type of message ex. 0: reserved, 1: Uconnect tag
2: iBeacon, 3: Eddystone, 4: Altbeacon
reader id
6 bytes ID of reader in hex => 12 chars
tag type (*)
type of tag ex. 1: tag w/o g-sensor, 2: tag w/ g-sensor ..
DIP Switch
▲
DCE
▼
DTE
2: RX 3: TX
5: GND 9: Vin
DCE/DTE:
Swap TX & RX