User's Manual

124 Document Number: 0100SM1401 Issue: 12-16

Part H – Advanced

Connectivity

Text User Interface (TUI)

The Text user interface can be accessed via; a serial connection, a Telnet session or a SSH session.

TUI Interface - Serial Console

The serial TUI interface is accessed via the COM 1/2 interface as shown in the diagram below. By default, the TUI can be

accessed via COM 1 (Pins 2,3 & 5) .

Text User Interface:

• Com 1

• Port Speed : 19200 bps

• Format : 8, N, 1

Connection to the PC requires a strait-through serial cable with Pins 2,3 & 5 connected. Hardware handshaking is not

enabled by default within the Q data radios, so unless handshaking is a requirement, no other connections are required.

Once the Q data radio is connected to the PC via a strait through

serial cable, use a serial console tool to create a serial communications

connection to the TUI. The following example uses a software package

called ‘PuTTY’. PuTTY is a freely available Serial console, SSH and Telnet

client. PuTTY can be downloaded from: http://www.putty.org/

Once installed, open PuTTy to display the configuration window.

Within the ‘Category’ section, go to: Connection > Serial. Within the serial

line configuration section configure the serial port you will be using to

interface to the Q data radio to the following settings:

• Speed (baud): 19200

• Data bits: 8

• Stop bits: 1

• Parity: None

• Flow control: None