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Introduction
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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).
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You can develop your Host 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.
Overview
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Prerequisites
Java Runtime Environment v7.0 minimum (32 bits - currently 64bits version is not supported)
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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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If you are using a newer version of Windows (10 or 11), the startup applications will be available in the Task Manager - Startup Apps.
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Basic Settings
u-Door type :
AUTO (automatical U-Door V2)
MANUEL (U-Door Lite)
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To remotely control standalone SW from your Host Application, 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 the Standalone App will send the reading results and other messages.
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.
To remotely control standalone SW from your own app, ensure that 'Connect in background when launched' is selected in 'Settings Window'
Schematic of UDoor Lite cycle with UDoor Standalone App
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Exemples of possible implementations
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More information about the 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.
How to test and debug your Host Application if you have no UDoor
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This document describes precisely How to test the Standalone App with Putty, for a UDoor Lite cabin:
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Abtract of UDoor User Guide (Chapter 7 concerning Standalone Application)
