Sending commands to BCD99XT, what am I doing wrong?

[mancow]

I have been attempting to send commands to a BCD996XT with a terminal emulator program but it doesn't respond. I looked at code in some of the programs on here and it appears they are simply sending ASCII codes such as the GLG command. I tried sending GLG but got nothing in return. What am I missing? The baud is correct and the radio responds to Proscan so it's not the setup that has an issue.

 

[KE5MC]

Possible that the emulator program has different serial port setup than Proscan is using. Example is number of data bits, stop bits and parity. Typical is 8,1,none. Baud rate is important but the others can monkey things good except the stop bit number.
Mike

I have been attempting to send commands to a BCD996XT with a terminal emulator program but it doesn't respond. I looked at code in some of the programs on here and it appears they are simply sending ASCII codes such as the GLG command. I tried sending GLG but got nothing in return. What am I missing? The baud is correct and the radio responds to Proscan so it's not the setup that has an issue.

 

[mancow]

I figured it out. I wasn't sending the CR command.

 

[scottyhetzel]

Are there rs232 commands to turn the unit from scan to hold ? You can activate hyper terminal in windows 8 . You don't have to buy putty.

 

[WB2KTG]

What terminal emulator program are you using? How are you wired up to the radio? Just the standard USB/Serial cable? I'm glad I looked here, I was planning on trying the same thing with my 396XT, figured I could leverage somebody's experience.

Thanks!

Bob

 

[mancow]

I was using the cable on a regular com port with a free terminal program.

 

[scottyhetzel]

Hi man cow, where did you find the commands?

 

[PhillyPhoto]

Hi man cow, where did you find the commands?

You can start here: http://info.uniden.com/twiki/pub/UnidenMan4/BCD396XT/BCD396XT_Complete_Reference.pdf, page 221+

 

[scottyhetzel]

You can start here: http://info.uniden.com/twiki/pub/UnidenMan4/BCD396XT/BCD396XT_Complete_Reference.pdf, page 221+

Thanks so much, i appreciate it. I want to control my scanner with my rti remote via rs-232. Basically just turn it on/off and hold, scan. The audio will pipe thru the house music when my woman is gone...lol

 

[rhombus_000]

Are there rs232 commands to turn the unit from scan to hold ? You can activate hyper terminal in windows 8 . You don't have to buy putty.

To hold: "KEY,H,P"

To scan: "KEY,S,P"

Be sure to send a CR after the command.

 

[scottyhetzel]

Thank you!

 

[mancow]

I wasn't using the carriage return but after realizing what was wrong it worked great.