Specifications

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7. When the base station is powered up, place your reader into the base
station. They become automatically paired. The base station’s status
indicator becomes green. When the wireless reader is removed from the
base, a wireless connection is established. The status indicator of both
the base station and the reader become blue and you can hear a beep.
Blue lights indicate the reader and base have successfully paired and are
communicating.
8. Connect to your base station or to the wireless reader. You have the
possible connection options:
Base
Station
Connection
Type
Connect to Reader in the Setup Tool Connection
Channels
RS-232 Base Station appears: COM port
(Wireless reader does not appear)
terminal program
USB Base Station appears: COM port 1
Wireless reader appears: COM port 2
terminal program
Setup Tool
Ethernet Base station appears: Network device 1
Wireless reader appears: Network device 2
terminal program
Setup Tool
9. Lift your reader up from the base station and start reading codes.
NOTES
• When the reader is on the base, communication is established by
means of cradle contacts. Wireless communication is disabled.
• Congure wireless communication settings by connecting to the
base station. In order for the changed settings to be synchronized
between the DataMan 8000 wireless reader and the base station,
place your reader in the base station after your changes are saved.
To assign a static IP address to the base station or the reader when
communicating via Ethernet, connect to the base station in the Setup
Tool. The base station, however, auto-assigns the IP address to the
reader when they become paired.
• When you connect with the base station to a terminal program, your
wireless reader sends decode results to the terminal, but you cannot
send commands to the reader.
• If you want to unpair your reader from the base station, you can
either click Unassign in the Setup Tool’s Communication Settings
pane’s Wireless tab (when you are connected either with the
reader or the base station), or scan the “Unassign Reader” reader
conguration code.
• If you place the wrong reader (that is, a reader that is not associated
with the base station) into the base station, the base station status
indicator ashes red and a long beep is sounded.
Wireless Connections (continued)