Extron Electronics System 5cr Plus User Manual

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System 5cccccrrrrr Plus • Serial Communication

Flag block

The flag block consists of fifteen bytes (0 to 14) that will be used for handling
special operation functions.

Byte 0 – Power on delay
Byte 1 – Power off delay
Byte 2 – Triple-action switching delay (0.5 second * value)
Byte 3 – Relay control
Byte 4 – Not used
Byte 5 – Not used
Byte 6 – Not used
Byte 7 – Mute control and various flags

Bit 7 – true = mute audio upon display power-down
Bit 6 – true = limit initial system volume (upon switcher power-up)
Bit 5 – true = send responses to RS-232 commands
Bit 4 – true = send channel change IR command upon display power-up
Bit 3 – false = disable front panel volume knob
Bit 2 – false = disable IR while display power is off
Bit 1 – false = fixed Line Out output level (1 = volume knob controls Line Out)
Bit 0 – unused

The factory default for byte 7 is all bits set to On (hex FF).

Byte 8 – Video type (composite video, S-video, or RGB)

Bit 5 = video 5 mode

0 = video
1 = S-video

Bit 4 = video 4 mode

0 = video
1 = S-video

Bit 3 = reserved
Bits 2 & 1 = video 3 mode

00 = RGB
01 = S-video
10 = video
11 = undefined

Bit 0 = reserved

Byte 14 – Checksum

Command/response table for advanced instructions
(for the control program for Windows)

Command

Hex. command

Response

Additional description

(host to switcher)

(switcher to host)

IR block

Read (upload)

80 83

8k bytes of data

Write (download)

80 82 [8 kbytes]

Dnl

Downloads 8 kbytes.

Flag block

Read (upload)

80 85

15 bytes of data

Write (download)

[Byte0]*[Byte1] 91

Flg

[Byte2]*[Byte3] 93

Flg

[Byte6]*[Byte7] 97

Flg

[Byte8]* 30 99

Flg

Unit reset

Reset unit

80 81

Upd

Example:
To set byte 0 to 21 and

byte 1 to 100, send the
following command:
30 32 31 2A 31 30 30 91

hex

The byte value range is 0-255.

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