Overview

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# Overview

EZConfig provides a wide range of PC-based programming functions that can be performed on a Honeywell scanning device connected to a PC COM port. EZConfig allows you to download upgrades to a device's firmware, change programmed parameters, and create and print programming bar codes. Using EZConfig, you can even save the programming parameters to a file which can be e-mailed to another user. You may also create a series of bar codes that contain all the customized programming parameters, and send those bar codes to any location. Users in other locations can scan those bar codes to load in the customized programming.

To communicate with a device, EZConfig requires that the PC have one of the following:

- A physical serial communication port, or
- A serial communication port emulated using a physical USB port, or
- A serial communication port emulated using Bluetooth Interface

## About this Help File

This help file documents all settings for any device that can be used with EZConfig. Therefore, you may see some selections in the help file that don't appear on the screen. For example, you will see descriptions for Imaging selections in this help file, even if your device cannot take images. The menu level help that you are viewing now gives an overview of the EZConfig tool. If you need complete comprehensive information about your product, please refer to your User's Guide on our website, www.honeywellaidc.com.

## Getting Started

The initial EZConfig screen invites you to either configure the settings for a device that is not connected (Disconnected Device), directly configure a device that's connected to your PC (Connected Device), or to change the COM Port settings and send serial commands to a device (Serial Data Window).

## Using a Disconnected Device

To run EZConfig without connecting to a device, click on Disconnected Device. Select or search for the device whose settings you want to view in EZConfig and the Configuration page appears. Once you have created a configuration, you can save it and load it to that type of device once it is connected to the PC. See Programming Your Device for further information.

## Using a Connected Device

To configure a connected device, plug the device into a serial or USB port on your PC, or connect via Bluetooth to a base or Access Point that is connected to the PC. Click on Connected Device. EZConfig displays the information for your device and allows you to Configure the Device, Update the Firmware, or display a Scan Data Window. See Programming Your Device for further information.

## Using the Serial Data Window

The Serial Data Window is most often used to connect to a device that is not compatible with EZConfig. You can use this window to connect to a device by setting the COM port and communication settings. You may then use serial commands to communicate with the device.

EZConfig-Scanning discovers the available ports and establishes a connection with the first discovered port, or the most recently connected port. Select the port you are using for the connected device and enter the baud rate, parity bits, data bits, stop bits, and handshaking. Click on the Refresh button to refresh the list of COM ports.

The scanner status indicators show when DST and DTR, or CTS and
RTS are active. CTS and/or DTR can be paused by removing the check mark from the appropriate check box. Once you wish to activate CTS and/or DTR, check the check box once more. Click on the Refresh button to refresh the scanner's status.

If you wish to open and close the active COM port manually, use the Open Port and Close Port buttons.

The serial command entry section, on the right side of the Serial Data Window, is used to send a serial command to a connected device. Type in the serial command and click the Send Command button:

Note: If you are working with a disconnected device, sending a command will have no effect.

Both the serial command and any response from the connected device appear in the window. When working with a connected device, the bottom of the Scan Data Window displays several check boxes that allow you to customize the types and the format of responses in the Scan Data Window.

#### Show Request/Response Tags

When queries are sent to the device and responses are returned, this selection displays the prefixes "Request" and "Response." For example, when Show Request/Response Tags is checked, the query BEPLVL? returns the following when querying a Honeywell device:

Request: BEPLVL?

Response: BEPLVL2[ACK].

When Show Request/Response Tags is unchecked, the query BEPLVL? returns the same messages, but without the prefixes:

BEPLVL?

BEPLVL2[ACK].

#### Expand Control Characters

This selection displays control characters. For example, when Expand Control Characters is checked, the query BEPLVL? returns the following when querying a Honeywell device:

Request: BEPLVL?

Response: BEPLVL2[ACK].

When Expand Control Characters is unchecked, the query BEPLVL? returns the following:

Request: BEPLVL?

Response: BEPLVL2-.

#### Hex

This selection displays queries and responses in the hex equivalent. For example, when Hex is checked, the query BEPLVL? returns the following when querying a Honeywell device:

Request: 42 45 50 4c 56 4c 3f

Response: 42 45 50 4c 56 4c 32 06 2e