Introduction
HID’s UDor V2 Cabin is not a simple RFID reader but a station including automation (Automatic doors, door sensors, UHF field motion system, obstacle detector, push button, leds…). Front and back automatic doors enable an ergonomic operation (no pull / just push the cage).
In order to facilitate the driving of U-Door V2 by an external Application, we have developed the HID U-Door standalone Application that enable
to recover tag data as well as other status messages as TCP sockets over the network (or as serial frames on a serial port)
to start reading cycle either locally by the operator or by simple ASCII commands issued by external software
The HID UDoor Standalone Application is detailed in the UDoor User Guide (Chapter 7).
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It can be installed on any computer of the network (possibly as a background task) and requires Java JRE environment >=7 (32 bits).
You can develop your Application in any language : the interface with HID’s UDoor Standalone App is limited to ASCII characters sent (optional) and messages received as TCP sockets.
Prerequisites
Java Runtime Environment v7.0 minimum (32 bits - currently 64bits version is not supported)
We recommand to add the path for java file in the environment variable (for example : exe: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre)
Installation from exe
You can now launch the standalone software from the START menu after installing.
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Launching from a terminal
You can use this command for example :
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Autostart function
Once installed, the Standalone software should be executed at each Windows boot.
We can verify it by checking that the software is present in msconfig.exe tab.
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Basic Settings
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u-Door type :
AUTO (automatical u-Door)
MANUEL (u-Door Lite)
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To remotely control standalone SW from your own app, ensure that 'Connect in background when launched' is selected in 'Settings Window'
Operation Settings
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RFID Settings
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Transmit power allows you to adjust the power of the antennas.
Communication Settings
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Allow you to choose the kind of communication. Basically, how you will send the reading result.
Process
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There is a Connect button to initialize the connection between the software and the hardware. Then, you can start the reading process by clicking on start processing and stop it by clicking on stop processing.
More information about Messages Published
Upon successful connection :
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In such a case, any ongoing read operation is aborted.
Questions and Answers
Q1 : HID Standalone Application sends messages mostly ended by '\r\n', but sometimes 1 message comes without this ending, so it can be considered like incomplete message. In other words : Standalone Application may send messages in 2 steps, first it sends for example 'INFO:PROCESSING' and than '\r\n', so I receive this separately in two readings
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If your host software communicates on TCP socket, the socket is only opened by standalone application only if the cabin is connected. So if it can connect it is good
if your software communicates in serial RS232 method 3.1 does not work.
in both cases you send the S character to see if the cabin responds or not (certainly with the drawback of launching a cycle for nothing)
there is no other method for querying the standalone on the condition of the cabin.
Abtract of UDoor User Guide (Chapter concerning Standalone Application)
