User's Manual

UK Timecode Systems Ltd. Unit 6, Elgar Business Centre, Moseley Road, Hallow, Worcester.
WR26NJ. UK
Binary Commands
Commands or queries requiring binary data are identified with different assignment
characters as follows.
‘>’ Binary set (same as text command’s ‘=’)
‘<’ Binary get (same as text command’s ‘?’)
Following the assignment character is a single length byte which denotes the length
of the following binary data. If there is no binary data to follow then this length byte
should be zero. The length byte should then be followed by the first byte of the
binary data. The binary data (or zero length byte) still requires to be followed with a
‘\n’ termination character.
“#BCMD>Length+Binary Data\n”
Multiple Commands per line
Multiple commands can be placed on a single command line. This is most useful for
BLink commands/queries to a single remote device as multiple commands on a
single line will be transmitted to the remote device in a single frame period i.e.
quicker. Multiple commands should be separated with the ‘:’ (full colon) character.
Each line, not each command, should be started with the ‘#’ character and
terminated with a ‘\n’.
“#TCTM?:TCUB?:RFTX=1:BINC>\04****\n”
Replies to multiple commands may be returned separately.
It must be remembered that there is a line length limit of 112 characters.
BLink Network Commands
BLink network device addressing is slightly different, please see later section on
‘Blink Networks’ for full details.