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Getting started with the modules

Theabovefigureshowsthe2.4GHzRFmoduleswhichyoumayhavereceived.Notethatoneofthemhavetheirpinsbentandthe other has its pins straight.You must have received a pair of same modules. Both of these work as transceivers. Togetstartedwiththedatacommunication,youhavetofirstsetupthemodules.Youneedtosetupthe Channel ID, Device ID and the Baud Rate.

To know more about connecting the hardware to your computer, please click here. (internet connection required) Afteryouhaveconnectedthehardwaretoyourcomputer,youcannowstarttheRobosoftSystems 2.4 GHz RF Module software. Please click here to know the system requirements of the software. When you start the software, you will be see a screen which will look like this:

From hereyoucan selectthe port of your computer to which you have connected the RF module. Over here you will find all the ports listed which are available in your computer right now. Among these ports, you will have to correctly select the one to which your hard ware is connected right now. To know how to find out, to which port you have connected the hardware, please click here.

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If any part of your screen appears to be blank or you are unable to make our what is written on th screen, you may have to change the screen resolution and the appearance of Windows. To know how to do this, please click here. RobosoftSystems 2.4 GHz RF Module supports COM ports only upto COM16. If your hardware has issued a COM port number more than COM16, then you need to change it back to a lower value which less than or equal to COM16. To know how to change the COM port number, please click here. ClickingSelect will select the COM port which is currently visible on the drop down menu. Clicking Defaultwillselectthefirstoption available on the the drop down menu. Clicking Cancelwillnotselectanyport.Inthefuture,ifyouwanttodoanydatatransferwhich involves the COM port, you will have to select the COM port first. Afteryouhaveselectedtheport,youwillseethefollowingscreen:

Thiswindowhelpsyoutosendorreceivepacketsorsinglebytes.Butbeforeyoustarttosendorreceivedata,youneedtoconfigurethe RF module first. To do this you can click on the tab Configure Module as shown below:

Afteryouclickonthistab,thewindowthatcomesupis:

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Fromhereyouwillsetupthe Channel ID, Device ID, and Baud Rate. To do this you will have to select the Channel ID from the first option menu to be any value between 0 - 255. The Device ID will also have to selected from the second menu option within 0 - 255. Leaving the Device ID as either 0 or 255 will set up the RF module in broadcast mode. Please note that the broadcast mode of the RF module will be confined within the specific channel that you have selected.After this you will have to select the Baud Rate. The available options are 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800 and 9600 bps. You will probably like to leave the Baud rate at 9600 bps. To load the values on the RF module you will have to click on the Load button. Suppose you have selected the Channel ID as 40, Device ID as60, and Baud Rate as 9600. If you now click on the Load button, you will be able to see a window like this:

Afteryouhaveloadedthevalues,youwillprobableliketoreadbackthevaluesthatyouhaveloaded.Fordoingthisyouwillhavetoclick on the Read button. When you click on the Readbutton,youwillseethefollowingwindow:

Youarenowdonewithconfiguringonemodule.Youwillhavetorepeatthesamestepsfortheothermodule.Toreviewthestepsonce

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again, please click here. Now that you are done with configuring the modules, you will now connect the modules to two different computers and click on the tab Run Module as shown:

Clickingonthistabwillopenupthefollowingwindowagain:

YouwillhavetoclickonthebuttonOpen Port which will now read as Close Portandthecolourofthebuttonwillturnred.Thisisas shown below:

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Nowyoucanusethisformtosend/receivepackets or bytes. Toknowhowtosend/receivepackets, please click here. Toknowhowtosend/reveivebytes, please click here.

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