System information

Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI)
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3.6.11.1 Port – You have selections here “COM”, “AP204”, “(SIP)LAN” & “(DIP)LAN”.
COM ports are the COM1 & COM2. On AP-5004, COM2 is RS485 dedicated for PTZ camera
control. “AP-204” is the RS232 to LAN converter that you set up at section 3.6.10. Only
the AP-204 units that were connected successfully will show up here. (SIP) LAN is the LAN
connection from POS machine with “static IP” address. (DIP)LAN is the POS machine with
“dynamic IP” connection to AP-5004.
3.6.11.2 Device – Here the selection varies with different categories form “Port”.
When “Port” is COM1 – you have selection of modem/GPIO/PTZ camera/Data capture.
When “Port” is COM2 – you have selection of GPIO/PTZ camera/Data capture.
When “Port” is AP-204 – you have Data capture.
When “Port” is (SIP)LAN or (DIP)LAN – you have Data capture.
The meaning of configuration here is you want to connect the “Port” selected to a physical
external device. For example, when “Port” is “COM1”, you can connect it to a “modem” or
GPIO that has RS232 serial interface. You then will need to set its “speed”, “data bits” as on
Fig. 3-42. When the “Device” is “Data capture”, that means you are connecting POS machine
for transaction text overlay with camera video. You can then select the text color and position
on screen. There are 4 positions. “Upper left”, “Upper right”, “Lower left”, “Lower right”.
You can also enable the background color of POS text to get better view of POS text when
necessary.
3.6.12 System info
This section display many useful and important information which are necessary for AP-5004
health checking and debugging. There is nothing to change here. But you will probably be requested
to give the maintenance people these information when the machine is no good. So, it is wisdom to keep a
record of this page.
Fig. 3-43