Serial
A client's settings for the “Virtual Serial Ports” area are made on the Serial tab. An asterisk next to the name of the tab indicates that the settings for the “Virtual Serial Ports” section have been changed, but have not yet been activated with Apply.
The “Virtual Serial Ports” functionality for the client can be enabled or disabled by setting or clearing the tick in the Serial selection box.
Under COM Port of Client in the selection box you can select a port name for the client and use the Add option to transfer it to the port list. It should be noted that only client serial ports that actually exist can be used. The currently selected entry can be deleted from the list with Remove.
Apply activates the configuration. The first time this is done for a client, the CP-Link 3 Remote Serial Port Enumerator is installed first, and then the CP-Link 3 Virtual COM Port driver for each virtual serial interface. In each case, the installation is done using the “Found New Hardware Wizard”. The virtual interfaces only appear when the TCP/IP connection to the client is established.
The current status of the virtual serial interfaces is read and displayed in the list with Refresh. In particular, the list shows the correlation between the COM ports of the client (COM Port of Client) and the virtual COM ports on the host PC (COM Port on Host).
The port names are usually found at the associated device terminal. Serial devices that are connected internally, such as a serial touchscreen, are documented in the device description (e.g. a label on the rear of a Panel PC).
Elo touch panel
An Elo touch panel, connected serially, can be operated through a virtual serial interface. To this end the appropriate Elo Touch driver must be installed for the respective port. Start the installation application EloSetup.exe and follow the instructions of the installation wizard.