Change UART Settings tool

Change UART settings of the Ethernet 102 (V2) Interface.

The UART functionality in the Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface is a special option and only inplemented on customer request. The Ethernet-102 interfaces that support this functionality have an extra connector for the serial signals to interface.

For the Ethernet-102 V2 Interface this UART functionality is a basic feature.

The program 'Brainbox_E102_ChangeRS232Settings.exe' is a simple tool that will give the software designers the possibility to change the UART communication settings of the Ethernet 102 Interface. The Ethernet 102 Interface must be connected to the PC-network and the power must be on. It is not permitted that there is already a connection made by an another program to the same Ethernet 102 Interface.

The next UART parameters can be changed:

Baudrate.
Number of data bits.
Number of stop bits .
Parity mode.
Software Flow Control.
Xon character.
Xoff character.
Polarity. (only for ETHERNET-102 V2 Interface)

The program start with a general screen. First a connection must be made to the Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface by pressing the 'Connect to Ethernet 102' button.

Start screen Change Ethernet 102 Interface IP address

In the TCP-IP connect screen the correct IP-address and port number of the Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface must be fill in. It is not necessary to fill in the default network address and port. After pressing the 'Connect' button the program try to find the network device by pinging this address.

In this example the IP address of the Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface is: 10.0.0.170. By default the Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface is pre-programmed on IP-address 10.0.0.160.

Press the 'RS-232 Settings' button of the general screen. The next dialog is shown. Before changing one or more serial network parameters, first the 'Get settings from UART' button must be pressed. The program loads the current UART settings from the connected Ethernet-102 (V2) Interface. Now change the parameters that are needed and send the new settings by pressing the 'Send settings to UART' button.

The next parameters can be changed for the UART.

Baudrate:

Baudrate
300
1200
2400
4800
9600	Default value
19200
38400
57600
115200

Databits:

5
6
7	Default value
8

Stopbits:

	Wordlength allowed
1	5,6,7,8	Default value
1.5	5
2	6,7,8

Parity:

None	Default value
Even
Odd

Software Flow Control:

		Xon	Xoff
on	Default value	0x11	0x13	Default value
		Any char	Any char
off	Not advised!	don't care	don't care

Polarity: (only for Ethernet-102 V2 Interface)

pos	Default value
neg

Now the programming of the new settings are ready. The new settings become active after a power-cycle of the Ethernet-102 Interface. The Ethernet-102 V2 Interface will do a reset cycle.

Download the software.

For installation of the software two files are needed.

Executables
	Brainbox_E102_ChangeRS232Settings.exe The tools below are only tested for WINDOWS XP, but in most of the cases it also works under WINDOWS-7. If you have problems with running this software tools under WINDOWS-7 please let us known, so we can try to solve the problem. (Contact Form)
Init file
	Brainbox_E102_ChangeRS232Settings.ini

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