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Kramer Electronics FC-8 manual

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    Kramer Ele ctronics, Ltd. USER MANUAL Model: FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge[...]

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    Contents i Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Getting Started 1 2.1 Quick Start 2 3 Overview 3 4 Your FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridg e 3 5 Connecting the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 5 5.1 Connecting the Controlled Device to the FC-8 5 5.2 Connecting the FC-8 to a Netwo rk 6 6 Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-23 2 Bridge 6 6.1 Using the Default Network Configurat[...]

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    Introduction 1 1 Introduction Welcome to Kra mer Electronics! Since 1 981, Kr amer Electronics has bee n providing a world of unique, crea tive, and affordable solutions to the vast range of proble ms that confront the video, audio, presentatio n, and broadca sting professional on a da ily basis. In recent years, we have redesigned and upgrad ed mo[...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Getting Started 2 2.1 Quick Start This quick start chart s ummarizes the basic se tup and operatio n steps.[...]

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    Overview 3 3 Overvie w The Kramer FC-8 is a serial-to- wireless and wireless-to -serial LAN device server that acts as a b ridge for connecting serial d evices to an 802.11b /g wireless LAN. The FC-8 supports TCP/UDP sockets, a Web server with Web site, and WEP, WP A, WPA2 Wi-Fi encryptio n. The FC-8 is housed in a Kra mer TOOLS enclosure, a nd is [...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Your FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 4 Figure 1: FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge Front and Back Views Table 1: FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge Front and Back Functions # Fe a tu re Fu nc ti on 1 12V DC Connecto r +12V DC for po wering the unit 2 FACTORY RESET Button Whe n pre sse d, era se s a ll con fig ura tio n d ata . U se o[...]

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    Connecting the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 5 5 Connecting the FC -8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge Th e FC-8 c an be u se d t o w ire les s ly c on tr ol an RS - 232- ba s ed d evi ce fr om a PC v ia an ad -h oc ne two rk (se e Figure 2 ) or v ia an ac c es s p oin t (r out er) to a la rge r n etw ork or th e I n tern et (s ee Figure 3 ). 5.1 Connecting the [...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 6 Figure 3: Connecting the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge (Access Point) 5.2 Connecting the FC- 8 to a Netw ork The FC-8 is connected to the network b y software configur ation as described in Section  6. 6 Configuring the FC-8 W i -Fi - RS-232 Bridge This section explain [...]

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    Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 7 6.1 Using the Default Network Config uration The FC-8 is configured in the factor y with the following def ault configuration that can be used immediatel y in an ad-hoc net work: Table 2: FC-8 Default Network Configuration Pa ra met er Va lue Network Name !K ramer-FC8 (ad hoc network) IP Address 192.168.[...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 8 Figure 4: Wireless Network Connection Window 5 . If t he K ra me r- F C 8 n etw o rk d oe s no t c on n ec t:  Click on Kra mer-FC8 to open the net work and click Change Advanced Settings .  Choose to highlight Inter net Pro tocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties . ?[...]

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    Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 9 To change the FC-8 configuration, d o the following: 1 . I n th e In te rn et br ow se r of a P C at t ac he d to t he F C- 8 n e tw or k , en te r t h e IP a dd re s s of t he F C- 8 (f or e xa mp le , u si n g t he d ef au lt I P ad dr es s: 1 92 .1 68 .3 . 2) . Th e S er ia l N et s e tu p pa ge a pp [...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 10 Table 3: FC-8 Serial Net Configuration Parameters Pa ra met er Po ss ib le Val u es No tes MAC Address Ethernet hard ware address (read -only) Bootblock Version For technical use (r ead-only) Serial Number Factory serial numb er of the device (read- only) W eb Server S[...]

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    Configuring the FC-8 Wi-Fi - RS-232 Bridge 11 Pa ra met er Po ss ib le Val u es No tes W ireless LAN WEP Key1 W EP64 – n o more than 10 characters (5 bytes) allowed (hex 0-9 A-F) W EP128 – no more than 26 characters (13 b ytes)allowed (hex 0-9 A-F) W ireless LAN WEP Key2 Same as W EP Key1 W ireless LAN WEP Key3 Same as W EP Key1 W ireless LAN W[...]

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    KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Operating the FC-8 12 3 . A ft er s ub m i t t i n g th e ne w pa r ame t e rs , re se t th e F C- 8 by c li ck in g th e R es e t i C h ip l in k a t th e bo tt om o f th e wi n dow . T he n ew w i n dow w i th t h e me ss ag e “ iC hi p is p e rf o rm in g re se t” o pe ns . Wa it a bo ut 1 m in ut e an d cl[...]

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    Technical Specifications 13 8 Technical Spec ifications The FC-8 technical specifications are shown in Table 5 : Table 5: FC-8 Technical Specifications 1 I NP UT: RS -23 2 D B9F co nne cto r O UT PUT : An ten na HA RD W AR E DE SCR IPT ION : Co re C PU: 32 -bi t R I SC ARM 7TDM I, low -l ea kag e, 0.1 3 mic ro n, run nin g a t 48 MHz O pe rat ing V[...]

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    Kramer Electron ics, Ltd. Web site: www.kramerelectronics.co m E-mail: info@kramerel.com P/N: 2900-000358 REV 3 For the latest in formation on ou r products and a list o f Kramer distributors, visi t our Web site: www.kra merelectr onics.com where updates to this user manua l may be found . We welcome you r questions, co mments and f eedback. Cauti[...]