Specifications

Danish Interpretation Systems Technical Specifications
Copyright © 2006 DIS DCS6000 RS232 MANUAL REV I.DOC 12-09-2006
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1 List of Contents
1 List of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 2
1.1 Revision history................................................................................................................... 4
2 Introduction and document overview.......................................................................................... 5
2.1 Restrictions in DCS6000..................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Voting Concepts .................................................................................................................. 5
2.2.1 Voting session............................................................................................................... 5
2.2.2 Attendance check.......................................................................................................... 6
2.2.3 Late Attendance ............................................................................................................ 6
2.3 Notation................................................................................................................................ 7
3 Serial Protocol.............................................................................................................................. 8
3.1 Package format.................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 CRC Calculation ................................................................................................................. 9
3.3 Encoding .............................................................................................................................. 9
3.4 Message types .................................................................................................................... 10
3.4.1 CU reset (CU  external)........................................................................................... 10
3.4.2 Change binary Control Mode (external  CU).......................................................... 10
3.4.3 Send Control Message to CU (external  CU).......................................................... 10
3.4.4 Receive Control Message from CU (CU  external) ................................................ 11
3.5 Building a control message – step by step....................................................................... 11
4 DCS 6000 Messages................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Addresses in the DCS 6000 system.................................................................................. 12
4.2 Group addresses................................................................................................................ 12
4.3 Messages from the external unit to the CU..................................................................... 12
The following sections describe the messages from each message group.................................. 13
4.3.1 Messages in EXTERNAL_CONTROL_GRP ............................................................ 13
4.3.2 Messages in MICROPHONE_CONTROL_GRP....................................................... 14
4.3.3 MICROPHONE_PRIORITY...................................................................................... 17
4.3.4 Messages in EXTERNAL_AUDIO_CONTROL_MU............................................... 18
4.3.5 Messages in Voting_CONTROL_GRP ...................................................................... 21
4.4 Summary of control messages (External Unit 

 CU)................................................... 24
4.5 Messages from the CU to the external unit..................................................................... 26