Serial communication, cont’d – Extron electronic MEDIALINK MLC 52 User Manual

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Serial Communication, cont’d

MLC 52 Series MediaLink Controllers • Serial Communication

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Adding a driver

To add a serial (RS-232) or IR driver to the MLC,

1

.

Load the serial and/or IR driver package(s) on your computer hard drive, if
you have not already done so.

2

.

Click Add Driver, in the lower-left corner of the MLC 52 main screen.

3

.

On the Add Driver window, click Serial or IR for the type of driver to be
added.

Add Driver window

A configuration can contain only one serial driver at a time, although
multiple IR drivers are allowed.

If you select Serial for a configuration that already has a serial driver, the
following message appears:

Serial driver overwrite prompt

a

.

Click Yes if you want to continue adding a serial driver, overwriting the
existing one. If you want to stop the process, click No.

b

.

If you click Yes, another prompt appears, asking if you want to save the
current configuration. Click Yes if you want to save it; No, to continue
without saving it; or Cancel, to stop loading the driver.

4

.

Select the desired driver from the window that opens.

If you select Serial

, the following window opens, displaying the

contents of the “drivers” folder, located at c: \Program Files\Extron\
MediaLink

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