Piranha4 2K and 4K Color Camera User's Manual 107Teledyne DALSA 03-032-20180-06Notes on Using Alternatives to HyperTerminal If you are using interfaces other than HyperTerminal, the ASCII character, ESC, is decimal 27 andneeds to be issued. From the command line insert ESC by using ALT+2+7 of the activated Num-Pad. In some cases this needs to be followed by a carriage return or a linefeed to send this to thecamera. In ASCII the ESC character may look like this: “←”.ASCII to GenCPTo switch from the ASCII-command interface to the GenCP interface, the camera must be either reset(RC) or the power must be cycled. Note that GenCP and ASCII commands cannot be accessedsimultaneously.The camera responds to a simple ASCII-based protocol. A carriage return ends each command.Example: to return the current detector settingsgcp A complete list of the available detector commands, their format and parameters can be displayed bysending the help (h) command.Port configurationBaud: 9,600Bits: 8Parity: NoneStop bits: 1Flow Control: NoneEcho typed characters locally.Rules The interface is not case sensitive One command and argument(s) per line To enter a floating point number prefix it with a “F” – for example “ssg 0 f1.5” Error codes returned are the same as the GenICam™ interface – see Diagnostics | Error Codes Follow each command with the carriage return character – 0x0DNote that the HyperTerminal application is not available on the Windows 7 OS.Alternatives to HyperTerminalThe following alternative ASCII-interfaces have been tested and shown to work with this camera:PuTTY and TeraTerm. Note that PuTTY does not have Xmodem capability while TeraTermdoes. Xmoden is required to update code in the camera.
