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These fields are only used when for the ATS-2 which must be connected to one of your
PC's serial (COM) ports. Select the baud rate, data bits, stop bits, parity and flow control
settings for the serial port. These settings must agree with the corresponding settings in
the data terminal. (The ATS-2 is normally configured at 9600, 8, 1, None with no flow
control.)
Device Type
Select your data terminal device. This drop down contains these devices:
ATS-2
A controller based unattended system that communicates directly with this application to
prompt the truck driver for information needed to process a transaction. Other hardware
devices packaged with the controller may include a printer, scale indicator, RFID scanner
or a bar coded badge reader.
Connector
This list displays all the possible serial port connections that can be used to connect the
data terminal to your PC. The list contains COM1 through COM8 even though you may
not have all these ports available. If you attempt to use an unavailable serial port, you will
receive the error message "Error 68 - Device Unavailable" when you test the connection
(see Test button).
The ATS-2 is the only data terminal device that you need to specify a serial port
connection.
Test button
Click this button to display the data terminal test screen for either the ATS-2.