Unitech HT580L Operation Manual

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Unitech

HT580L Operation Guide
Version 1.0

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Overview............................................................................................................................................................ 3

1. SETTING .............................................................................................................. 4

1.1. DATE & TIME.............................................................................................................................................. 4

1.2. Device.............................................................................................................................................................. 5

1.2.1. BACKLIGHT........................................................................................................................................... 5

1.2.2. SCANNER .............................................................................................................................................. 5

1.2.3. AUTORUN.............................................................................................................................................. 6

1.2.4. Memory ................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.3. MODEM......................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.3.1. BAR....................................................................................................................................................... 10

1.3.2. PSWD – Password............................................................................................................................. 11

1.3.3. SYS – Perform Cold/Warm Start or Update F/W.................................................................................. 11

1.3.4. DIAG - Diagnostics............................................................................................................................... 12

2. COMMUNICATION..............................................................................................13

2.1. USB communication.................................................................................................................................... 13

2.2. BlueTooth communication.......................................................................................................................... 13

2.3. Communication program........................................................................................................................ 15

2.4. Modem communication........................................................................................................................... 17

3. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION....................................................................19

Model.................................................................................................................................................................... 19

HT580L................................................................................................................................................................. 19

3.1. Pin Assignment......................................................................................................................................... 20

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Overview

HT580L operation guide will cover more detail on F/W setting and software development tool
APG580 (Application Generation for HT580L)

After power on HT580LL, it will show main menu as below

There are 3 options – Setting , Formaching and Run APG580.

HT580L V1.15

1. SETTING

2. FORMCACHING

3. RUN APG580

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1. Setting

Setting menu do 2 major functions – User mode setting and Supervisor setting. In HT580L User
Guide, it already explains user mode operation. This document will also repeat it again from below
section.

Note : Due to no barcode scanning requirement on Setting menu, SCAN key will also be
treated as ENTER key during Setting operation. So, user can use below 2 ways to select any
Setting item

 Press MENU key to move cursor to target item and then press SCAN(or ENTER) key
 Direct press item number (without combining with ENTER) to enter setting item

After pressing “1” key from main screen, there are four setting options which include the following:

1. DATE & TIME

2. DEVICE

3. MODEM

4. SUPERVISOR

1.1. DATE & TIME

Press “1” (or press “MENU” key to move cursor to item 1) to enter DATE & TIME category so that you are
able to set the correct date and time. The page will appear as it is shown below:

Press numeric keys to input correct date & time. Once complete, press [ENTER] to save the revised
settings. To go back to previous menu, press [ESC].

YYYY-MM-DD
2000-01-08
HH-MM-SS
05:50:35

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1.2. Device

Use MENU key to move cursor to one of item and then press ENTER (or SCAN key) or directly press
“1” ~ “3” to select target item:

1.2.1. BACKLIGHT

HT580L’s backlight can be automatically on after key pressed and it will automatically off after
predefined period time if there is no more key pressed. Timeout period will be reset if any key is pressed.
In HT580L, timeout period can be set to 10/20/30 or 60 seconds. Or backlight can be set as always OFF
or ALWAYS on.
To set up the backlight, press MENU to adjust the setting. There are below options for choice

Item Description
On 10 SECS

Turn on backlight after key-pressing, and then
automatically turn off after 10 seconds

On 20 SECS

Turn on backlight after key-pressing, and then
automatically turn off after 20 seconds

On 30 SECS

Turn on backlight after key-pressing, and then
automatically turn off after 30 seconds

On 60 SECS

Turn on backlight after key-pressing, and then
automatically turn off after 60 seconds

Always

Always turn on backlight

Off

Always turn off backlight
BACKLIGHT selection : ON 10 SECS/ ON 20 SECS/ ON 30 SECS/ ON 60 SECS/ Always/ OFF
Selecting your preference and press [ENTER] to save the change. To go back to previous menu, press

[ESC].

1.2.2. SCANNER

SCANNER selection: ON NORMAL/ON FLASH/OFF. Press [MENU] key to select your preference and
press [ENTER] (or [SCAN] key) to save the changes. To go back to the previous menu, press [ESC].
Below are explanation for those 3 options

ON
NORMAL

Standard operation way (one trigger on scan), scanning
beam will be emitted when press SCAN key and scanning
will be off when releasing SCAN key. Scanning beam will be
also off when it successfully read barcode

ON FLASH Press SCAN (and then immediately), scanner will

automatically continuously emit scanning beam and off
scanning beam until Enter flash mode after press SCAN key
(and then release SCAN key). User can press SCAN key
again to stop Flashing.

OFF Turn off scanner. Scanning beam will not be emitted after

press SCNA key

1. BACKLIGHT

2. SCANNER

3. AUTORUN

4. MEMORY

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1.2.3. AUTORUN

AUTORUN is defined to automatically run pre-define FORMCACHING or APG580 program after power
on. Or setup HT580L to back to previous running point before power off. There are below 4 options for
choice.

Formcaching Always run Formcaching from beginning after power on

HT580L

APG580 Always run APG580(EasyJob) from beginning after power on

HT580L

RESUME Back to previous running point before power off. This option

is default setting.

OFF Always warm-start after power on. It will back to start menu.

1.2.4. Memory

To display total memory and free memory space.

1.3. MODEM

Unitech provide modem cradle as HT580L’s accessory. So, user can get data through modem if
HT580L is plug into modem cradle.

In general, system administrator need to setup host PC to automatically dial to modem cradle and then
issue command from host to do data communication or remote control. For such configuration, it is
necessary to setup modem to automatically pick phone when host call modem. So, it provides option
“AUTO ANSWER” to setup modem from HT580L.

User can also directly call to remote host PC from modem cradle via HT580L. So, it is necessary to
setup remote PC’s phone number, and then dial out, and then hang up phone if user need to stop
modem communication.

There are below 4 options on MODEM

1.PHONE NUMBER To setup remote modem’s phone number

2.AUTO ANSWER Send ATS0=1 [enter] to modem cradle. So, modem cradle
will automatically pickup phone after one ring tone. You
will get error message if HT580L is not plugged into cradle
or modem cradle is power off.

3.DIAL OUT Dial out according “Phone number” setting. It will send
“ATDT” + phone number

4.HANG OUT Hang up phone (send “+++” and then “ATH”)

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