FS10 Series
OPERATION
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FS10 Serial Interface (Command Line, Alternate Communication Interface)
A PC terminal program can be used as a serial console to control the FS10 over its serial interface. The instructions below use Tera Term, a
free open source terminal program that’s maintained on the Open Source Development Network (OSDN) website. Follow the steps in Tera
Term’s installer program to install this app onto your computer. Then follow the below steps to set up Tera Term to communicate with the
FS10 (assumes the FS10 is already powered up and connected to one of the PC’s USB ports via a serial-to-USB adapter). Adapt these instruc-
tions if an alternate terminal program is used such as HyperTerminal that came with older versions of Microsoft Windows (XP and earlier).
1. Launch the Tera Term program:
With a newly installed program,
the
New connection
dialog pops up
as shown at right. Click the
Serial
radio button. Select the COM port
assigned to the PC’s USB port to
which the FS10 is connected using
the
Port
drop-down list. Click
OK
when done. See #2 below.
If the PC’s Tera Term program was
used with the FS10 before and
the setup was saved, the terminal
window shows without the
New con-
nection
dialog. See #2 below.
If the PC’s Tera Term program
was used previously for another
purpose, launching the program
may show the Error dialog, “Cannot
open COMx. Not found.” where “x”
is some port number that the sys-
tem cannot find. If this is the case,
click
OK
to dismiss the Error dialog.
See #2 below.
2. Under Tera Term’s
Setup
menu,
accept the defaults for
Terminal...
(VT100, Terminal size = 80 x 24) and
Window...
Verify that the
Serial port...
setup dialog has the parameters as
shown at right. Other than the port
number, these are default values.
Adjust the parameters as neces-
sary to match the defaults. Click
OK
when done. See #3 below.
If Tera Term showed the Error
dialog “Cannot open COMx. Not
found.” when launched, use the
Serial port setup
dialog to select the
appropriate COM port (FS10’s serial
to USB adapter connection) using
the
Port
drop-down list. Click
OK
when done. See #3 below.