Panasonic PT-VZ580

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” (
Æ
page 121).
When WEB Control administrator rights password is set (Protect mode)
Connecting method
1) Obtain the IP address and port number (Initial set value = 1024) 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 the WEB control → [Detailed set up] → [Command port set up] page → [COMMAND
PORT]
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 “admin1”)
yyyyy :
Password of above administrator rights user (Default password is “panasonic”)
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
(Refer to
“Connecting method”
above)
‘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)
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