September 2007
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
17h 48m
English
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336 MAKING THINGS TALK
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GND
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Lantronix
XPort
LD1117-V33
Voltage Reg
In Out
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VCCIO
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Figure 9-15
XPort connected to a USB-to-serial adaptor.
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IDENTIFICATION 337
The first items you’ll need to set for menu item 3 are the
SMTP mail server IP and your login info. To get your mail
server’s numeric IP address, you can ping it. For example,
if your mail server is smtp.yahoo.com, open a terminal
window and type:
ping –c 2 smtp.yahoo.com
You’ll get a reply starting with a line containing the IP you
need:
PING smarthost.yahoo.com (216.145.54.172): 56 data bytes
Here are some initial mail settings for the XPort. Replace
these values with the appropriate ones for your server:
Mail server () ? (216) .(145) .(54) .(172)
Unit name () ? myAccountName
Domain name () ? example.com
Recipient 1 () ? myAccountName@example.com
Recipient 2 () ?
Once you’ve got the account set up, it’s time to set
the serial bytes that will trigger the messages, and the
messages themselves. Replace the hexadecimal values
shown here with your own values:
- Trigger 1
Enable serial trigger input (N) ? Y
No. of bytes (2) ? 2
Match (,) ? 42,37
Trigger input1 [A/I/X] (X) ?
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