Smart Avi CATSwitch - Manual (Page 25)

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Male to Female Straight Cable (not provided)
How to properly create an RS-232 connection between a PC and most SmartAVI RS-232 compliant devices
1. Connect a straight through male
to female RS-232 cable (shown on
right) to the RS-232 connector on
the PC.
2. Connect the other end of the cable
to the RS-232 compliant device.
3. Power on the device.
Establish a connection to your RS-232
compliant device:
Setting up the Terminal application:
Hyperterminal Settings
1. Open Hyperterminal on the PC. (or
use the terminal client of your choice)
2. Use the default settings to create a
connection to the device (see settings
on left). Settings MUST match those
shown on the lower right.
3. Be sure that Flow Control is None.
4. The output of the device will be the
same as the PC.
RS-232 Specifications