Akurate Kontrol pre-amplifier - RS232 ASCII Interface Specification and Commands - Version 1.2
1.8: Status Command
The status command has been provided as a debugging aid, i.e. the host can find out why a command was
not processed.
1.8.1: STATUS
Return the status of the last command
Where „sc‟ is the returned status code and „sv‟ is the status value (only used with code 25 for now). Codes
are allocated on a block basis for each product with the first 48 codes reserved for general use.
1.8.1.1: Status Codes
The following table lists the General Status Codes which all products support.
- Unexpected termination of command line
- Unrecognised or misplaced character in command line
- Corrupted command message (within $….$)
- Start of another source identifier, identifier has already been supplied
- Start of another group identifier, identifier has already been supplied
- Start of another destination identifier, identifier has already been supplied
- Source identifier is too large, maximum of 20 characters
- Group identifier is too large, maximum of 20 characters
- Destination identifier is too large, maximum of 20 characters
- Source identifier corrupted
- Group identifier corrupted
- Destination identifier corrupted
- Unknown destination identity
- Unknown command parameter
- Parameter missing from ID command
- Unknown product identifier, cannot delete
- Parameter missing from GID command
- Cannot delete group identifier, unknown
- Cannot add new group identifier, already exists
- Cannot add new group identifier, list full
- Polling must be activated by the POLL START command
- Only POLL ID, SLEEP or DONE commands accepted during polling
- Message exceeded maximum allowable length
- „sv‟ defines maximum length (upto and including CR, and excluding LF)
26 (0x1A)
up to
47 (0x3F)