Telegesis
TG-ETRX2CF-PM-01-200
3
ETRX2CF v2
Product Manual
2.01
©2008 Telegesis (UK) Ltd
ETRX2CF Product Manual (Rev 2.01)
1 Introduction
The ETRX2CF ZigBee® CompactFlash
™ card is a RS232 to CompactFlash™ bridge, connected
to an ETRX2 wireless meshing module. This allows connectivity to a PDA or laptop using either
the Compact
Flash™ or PCMCIA (with adapter) expansion slots.
The supplied drivers create a virtual COM Port, so that the command line of the ETRX2 can be
accessed via any terminal software application or using custom software.
When using Windows® 9x/XP/2000/Vista the Telegesis Terminal Application program can be used
as described in the Development Kit Manual, alternatively the Telegesis Terminal for Pocket PC
can be used with operating systems such as Windows Mobile 5.0.
With the advent of EmberZNet3 the ETRX2CF cards can also support EZSP (Ember Serial ZigBee
Protocol) over UART as described in section 6 of the Ember EM260 datasheet.
1.1 Supported Operating Systems
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Pocket PC
Windows Mobile 5.0
Linux
Information on Linux can be obtained from Elan at
www.elandigitalsystems.com/support/ccpfaq/serialcardsinlinux.php
1.2 Supported hardware
There are many different PDAs available and it is not possible for us to verify the ETRX2CF
card‟s
operation in all of them. We have used:
HP iPAQ 5550
HP iPAQ HX2490
Problems with interfacing the ETRX2CF card to a PDA may be caused by the drivers associated
with the VMB5000 CF-to-serial bridge chip in the ETRX2CF, and we recommend that you check
the list of known issues at
www.elandigitalsystems.com/support/commsfaq/index.php
1.3 Interoperability
Please note that the R2xx Telegesis AT-Command line Interpreter is based on a private
application profile and uses the Ember meshing and self-healing stack, so interoperability with
wireless mesh networking solutions from other manufacturers is unlikely when using the default
