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Control commands via LAN
You can also control via the <LAN> terminal by using the control command format via the <SERIAL IN> terminal.
For examples of the available commands, refer to “Control commands” (x page 128).
Attention
f Set the password of administrator account before using the LAN control (x pages 38, 83).
When web control administrator rights password is set (Protect mode)
Connection method
1) Obtain the IP address and port number (Initial set value = 1 024) of the projector and make a request
for connection to the projector.
f Acquire the IP address from the menu screen of the projector, and the port number from the web control
page.
IP address
Obtain from the [NETWORK] menu → [NETWORK STATUS]
Port No.
Obtain from [Detailed set up] → [Port set up] page of the web control
2) Check the response from the projector.
Data section Blank Mode Blank Random number section Termination symbol
Command
example
“NTCONTROL”
(ASCII string)
‘ ’
0x20
‘1’
0x31
‘ ’
0x20
“zzzzzzzz”
(ASCII code hexadecimal
number)
(CR)
0x0d
Data length
9 bytes 1 byte 1 byte 1 byte 8 bytes 1 byte
f Mode : 1 = Protect mode
f Example: Response during protect mode (random number section is undened value)
“NTCONTROL 1 23181e1e” (CR)
3) Generate a 32-byte hash value from the following data using MD5 algorithm.
f “xxxxxx:yyyyy:zzzzzzzz”
xxxxxx :
Administrator rights user name for web control (Default user name is “dispadmin”)
yyyyy :
Password of above administrator rights user
zzzzzzzz :
8-byte random number obtained in Step 2)
Command data format
It is the data format used for sending and receiving commands.
r Transmitted data
Header Data section Termination symbol
Command
example
Hash value
(See above
"Connection method")
‘0’
0x30
‘0’
0x30
Control command
(ASCII string)
(CR)
0x0d
Data length
32 bytes 1 byte 1 byte Undened length 1 byte
f Example: Transmission of power supply status acquisition command (hash value is calculated from default user
name, password, and acquired random number)
“dbdd2dabd3d4d68c5dd970ec0c29fa6400QPW” (CR)
r Received data
Header Data section Termination symbol
Command
example
‘0’
0x30
‘0’
0x30
Control command
(ASCII string)
(CR)
0x0d
Data length
1 byte 1 byte Undened length 1 byte
f Example: The projector is powered on
“00001” (CR)
Chapter 7 Appendix - Technical Information