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Yamaha RX-A1050
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Post 1 made on Thursday August 18, 2016 at 15:59
FutureSystems
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I want to control a RX-A1060 mute function via it's RS-232c connection.
To send the serial commands I am using a Hall Research HR-4 [Link: hallresearch.com] with null modem cable between the devices.

I am doing something wrong because after working on it for several days I cannot get the 1060 to respond.

To MUTE the receiver I am using the serial command of:
"@MAIN:MUTE=Off" without the quotes

I have confirmed that the HR4-P is sending the above command by using Termite. [Link: compuphase.com]

Port Settings:
Baud rate : 9600
Data bits : 8
Parity : No
Stop bit : 1 bit
Handshaking : None

What am I forgetting or doing wrong?
Thanks, Allen

Last edited by FutureSystems on August 18, 2016 16:11.
Allen
Post 2 made on Thursday August 18, 2016 at 23:11
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Check line end terminator.
Post 3 made on Saturday August 20, 2016 at 14:26
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I checked my documentation and verified that each command must be terminated with CR and LF. Also, you can bump into issues if commands follow too close together. 200ms is the recommended minimum spacing.
OP | Post 4 made on Thursday August 25, 2016 at 23:14
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buzz, you are so correct! SOLVED...


The Yamaha protocol that I saw didn't specifically state whether it needed a carriage return, or line feed.
I added both carriage return and line feed codes after the command as you suggested and wallah, it worked.

Thank you so much for your input.

Best,
Allen

This was a project to automatically mute the receiver when ever a phone rings or goes off-hook.
Allen
Post 5 made on Friday August 26, 2016 at 02:44
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You are welcome.

Their documentation can be a bit scattered. On the first RX-Vxxxx RS-232 units one must strap pins 7 and 8 together on the receiver side. Not a Yamaha issue, but some early controllers required some strapping too, usually pins 3 and 4. This was inherited from the early data terminal days when mechanical devices at both ends of the cable would notify each other when they were ready. Now, virtually everything uses a 3-wire connection. In those early days one had to worry about overrunning the partner device on a character by character level. Now we have lots of memory and can buffer large blocks of data, however, in a two-way environment one must be sure that the other side has had enough time to execute a command, or things could get out of sync.

One can also run into some voltage issues because early devices insisted on a +/- voltage range, not the 0-5V range of integrated circuits. Modern RS-232 devices will operate with the 0-5V levels.

As is often the case, Wikipedia is rich with details.


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