GENOVATION Wireless QuickSave MiniTerm Quick Start Guide Revision A July 2006
1: What’s Included Your Wireless MiniTerm package should include the following items: o 2.4 GHz wireless MiniTerm keypad with or without optional barcode scanner. o 2.4 GHz wireless dongle (also known as a transceiver or bridge). USB 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 compatible. o Installation CD containing USB Virtual Serial Port driver for Win2k/XP and Win98se and serial test application. o Product documentation. o Two 1.5V C cell alkaline batteries.
8. Windows will then load and activate the device, please wait for Windows to completely finish this process. Installation: For Windows 2000 and XP 1. Insert the Genovation CD-ROM. 2. Plug in the USB Genovation Virtual Serial dongle. 3. Windows will find new hardware and open “Found New Hardware Wizard” window. Click the “NEXT” button. 4. Choose “Install from a list or specific location” and “NEXT” (Windows XP only). 5. Choose “Search for the best driver in these locations”. 6.
6. After a few moments the bind should proceed. If successful, the keypad will revert to it’s normal prompt, Enter Code # and you can proceed to the Test section of this document. If it fails the keypad will display Bind Failed! you should redo the above steps. It is better to perform the steps as quickly as possible. 5: Test the Keypad A simple serial test application has been provided for your convenience. Any terminal emulator software will suffice. Make sure you have completed all of the above steps.
On the example PC COM1 and COM2 are associated with the hardware RS232 ports on the back of the computer (the DB-9 connectors). COM4 is associated with the new Genovation Virtual COM Port. Select COM4 and click OPEN.
Keypad Operation The 8:1 dongle continuously polls its bound keypads on a 1MHz wide channel in the 2.4GHz band. The dongle selects a “quiet” channel and remains there unless there is too much non-MiniTerm activity or there are too many failed data packets. If necessary, the dongle will hop to a quieter new channel. The keypads will locate the dongle by listening for the dongle poll signal. Normally the keypad sleeps after 15 seconds of inactivity to conserve battery power.
The data transmitted from the keypad is in the format: A##########K or A##########B Where: o A is an advertisement # (1 though 8).. o ### is the user phone number or barcode data. o K indicates keypad input o B indicates barcode input o is the carriage return terminating character. In addition, there may be a prefix character that identifies the keypad by ID#. See the Wireless MiniTerm Developers Manual for more information.
Appendix: Technical Background The following are excerpts from the Wireless MiniTerm Developers Manual. This information is provided here to help the system integrator to understand how the unit operated. Wireless -- (8:1) In 8:1 systems the keypad is configured as a slave and the dongle is configured as master. The host dongle is continually polling for Mini-Terms but one or more of them may be missing or sleeping at any given time.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 15.21 You are cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the part responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. 15.105(b) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
