User's Manual
COBALT UHF-SERIES CONTENTS
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3.3 CONFIGURING THE COBALT VIA “CONFIGURATION TAG”.......................38
3.3.1 Restoring Factory Defaults..............................................................................38
3.3.2 Manually Assigning Node ID (Cobalt -485 Model Only).....................................39
3.3.3 Automatic Node ID Assignment via Gateway (Cobalt -485 Model Only) ............40
3.3.4 Automatic Node ID Assignment via Hub (Cobalt -485 Model Only) ....................41
CHAPTER 4: LED STATUS......................................................... 42
4.1 LED FUNCTIONS OVERVIEW ...............................................................42
4.1.1 LED Behavior for Cobalt UHF-CNTL-232-02 ....................................................42
4.1.2 LED Behavior for Cobalt UHF-CNTL-485-02 ....................................................43
4.1.3 LED Behavior for Cobalt UHF-CNTL-IND-02 ....................................................44
CHAPTER 5: COMMAND PROTOCOLS........................................ 45
5.1 COMMAND PROTOCOLS OVERVIEW......................................................45
5.2 RFID COMMAND TABLE......................................................................46
5.2.1 RFID Commands - Note About the UHF-G2-525xx Tag Memory Structure .........48
5.3 ABX COMMAND PROTOCOL OVERVIEW................................................49
5.3.1 ABx Command Packet Structure......................................................................49
5.3.2 ABx Protocols - Headers and Terminators .......................................................49
5.3.3 ABx Response Packet Structure......................................................................50
5.4 ABX FAST COMMAND PROTOCOL........................................................51
5.4.1 ABx Fast - Command / Response Procedure....................................................51
5.4.2 ABx Fast - Command Packet Structure............................................................52
5.4.3 ABx Fast – Command Packet Elements ...........................................................53
5.4.4 ABx Fast - Multi-Tag Command Packet Structure.............................................56
5.4.5 ABx Fast - Multi-Tag Command Packet Elements.............................................57
5.4.6 ABx Fast - Response Packet Structure ............................................................58
5.4.7 ABx Fast Protocol: Error Response Packet Structure ......................................59
Single-Tag RFID Command 0xC2: Read EPC Code ....................................................60
Single-Tag RFID Command 0xC3: Write EPC Code ....................................................61
Multi-Tag RFID Command 0xC4: Read EPC Code ......................................................62
Controller Specific Command 0xC0: Set UHF Configuration.............................................64
Controller Specific Command 0xC1: Get UHF Configuration ............................................66
5.5 CBX COMMAND PROTOCOL ................................................................67
5.5.1 CBx - Command Procedure.............................................................................67
5.5.2 CBx - Command Packet Structure ...................................................................68
5.5.3 CBx Response Packet Structure......................................................................69
5.5.4 CBx Multi-Tag Command Packet Structure ......................................................71
5.5.5 CBx Multi-Tag Command Packet Elements ......................................................72
5.5.6 CBx Multi-Tag Response Packet Structures.....................................................73
5.5.7 CBx Multi-Tag Response Final Termination Packet Structure............................74
5.5.8 CBx Protocol: Error Response Packet Structure...............................................75
CBx Single-Tag RFID Command 0xC2: Read EPC Code .............................................76
CBx Single-Tag RFID Command 0xC3: Write EPC Code .............................................78
Multi-Tag RFID Command 0xC4: Read EPC Code ......................................................80
Controller Specific Command 0xC0: Set UHF Configuration.............................................82
Controller Specific Command 0xC1: Get UHF Configuration ............................................85
5.6 ERROR CODE TABLE..........................................................................87