Archive for June, 2012

Smart Control Your Devices Remotely with N-Button Lite

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

N-Button Lite creates up to 16 widgets that float on your desktop to control external devices, send specified data, run applications, send http requests or send data lists. It supports Serial Port/ USB and Network connection between a PC and devices.

N-Button Lite makes it possible to control your devices without any programming!

N-Button Lite allows you to access the created widgets through web browser. You can control your devices from anywhere via internet with your computer, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, Windows tablet as well as Linux and Mac.

  • Select "Allow to Access through Browser" on N-Button Lite Manager shown as below.

N-Button Lite Manager

Click "OK", you may see Windows Security Alert dialog. Click "Allow access".

N-Button Lite Allow Access

You will see these widgets float on your desktop. Here is the sample widgets.

N-Button Lite Widgets

Now, you can view the created widgets by visiting the current computer’s IP address and port number in any internet browser with computer, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, Windows tablet as well as Linux and Mac.

View and control the created widgets from Google Chrome.

N-Button Lite - Control Widgets Remotely

View and control the created widgets from Firefox.

N-Button Lite - Control Widgets Remotely

 

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One Button Timer – Turn ON/OFF relay in specific time with N-Button

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Using N-Button software, you can create only one button to turn on/off relay in specific time.

There are two ways.

One is to create a Customized Button -> Send Specified Data. There are timer commands for PorXR relay boards of National Control Devices, which can turn on/off a relay for given time.

ProXR Timer Command

For example, to turn on Relay 1 for 30 seconds, you can create a customized button to send data “254 50 50 0 0 30 0”.

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Another way is to create a Customized Button -> Send Data List. It can run a command list which created by Comm Operator software. In command list, you can send a group of commands and specify the interval between each command.

Here is a sample list to turn on Relay 1 for 30 seconds, then turn off it for 5 seconds, then turn on it for 20 seconds, and then turn of it.

The data can be added or edited by click “Edit” button. You also can test the data list by clicking “Start” button.

Save as the Send Data List to a *.sds file. Here is sample.sds.

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Now, create a Customized Button to open the sample.sds file in N-Button. When the button is clicked, it will start to run the command list. The command list works for all relay boards.

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This is only one simple application for N-Button. You can create buttons to send data to any of your devices.

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Enter WiFly Module Command Mode with Comm Operator

Monday, June 11th, 2012

WiFly module has two modes, data mode and command mode or configuration mode.

Upon power up, WiFly module will be in data mode. To enter command mode, exactly the escape sequence (set to three characters, $$$ by default) must be sent. The WiFly module will respond with CMD indicating it is in command mode.

Here is the screenshot for entering command mode with Comm Operator.

Comm Operator - WiFly Module - Command Mode

Make sure the following steps have been done before you enter command mode with Comm Operator.

1. Connect WiFly module with your computer.

2. Download, install and run Comm Operator.

3. Open USB Serial Port connecting with the WiFly module.

Note: There is no carriage return (<CR>) after the $$$ to enter command mode.

While in command mode, the WiFly module will accept ASCII bytes as commands. Each command ends with a carriage return <CR>.

To exit command mode, send “exit<CR>”. The WiFly module will respond with ËXIT indicating that it has exited command mode and switched into data mode.

Comm Operator - WiFly Module

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Why Preset Position can not be saved for Sony Cameras?

Monday, June 11th, 2012

PTZ Controller supports Sony VISCA protocol. It works with Sony cameras.

About Preset Position of PTZ Camera, PTZ Controller only supports what the camera supports.

Only 6 Preset Positions are supported by Sony’s camera. That’s why you can not save more than 6 Positions on your Sony camera, though PTZ Controller provides 127 presets.

You also need to turn on BACKUP switch on you camera to save the Preset Position when the power is turned off. Otherwise, all settings return to initial values when the power is turned on the next time.

PTZ Controller -Preset Position

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How to Update WiFly Module with Comm Operator

Monday, June 4th, 2012

 

Here are the steps for how to use Comm Operator software to update WiFly module to the latest firmware.

1. Connect WiFly module with your computer.

2. Download, install and run Comm Operator.

3. Open USB Serial Port connecting with the WiFly module.

4. Send “$$$” to  enter command mode.

5. Load ftpUpdate.sds  file.

6. Send “ver<CR>” to get the version information of the WiFly module.

7. Send “set ftp  address 208.109.14.133<CR> ” to set IP address of FTP server.

8. Send “set ftp dir public<CR>” to set directory to use on FTP server.

9. Send “set ftp user roving<CR>” to set the ftp user name for accessing FTP server.

10. Send “set ftp pass Pass123<CR>” to set the password for accessing FTP server

11. Send “Save<CR>” to save the settings.

12. Send “ftp update<CR>” to update the WiFly module.

13. Send “factory RESET<CR>” to reset the WiFly module to the factory default state.

14. Send “reboot<CR>” to  reboot the WiFly module.

15. Configure the WiFly module with your custom configuration. Download the configuration file.

See How to Configure WiFly Wireless Module with Comm Operator

Note: The WiFly module needs to visit FTP sever. It must be configured before update.

 

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