Magic Box User manual Electromechanical Control Business Division Industrial Solutions Company Panasonic Corporation Product description Part Number Panasonics part number Country of origin Application Model number Magic Box
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Japan Consumer wireless control system ZERS1901 1. System Overview This product is a two-button switch unit used in consumer wireless control system. When the switch button is pressed by the operation of a lever etc. into which this product is embedded, electric power is generated by its mechanical operation. The generated electric power is used to transmit information such as which of the two buttons is pressed using 2.4GHz to a wireless receiver of a wireless control system installed at a remote location. The wireless receiver that has received the signal reads the switch unit ID and the state of each button from the signal, and outputs the read signal to the external devices as a control signal. The following diagram shows the wireless control system example for the demonstration purpose. It consists of one Magic box (transmitter switch) and one receiver and a windows 64bit PC. 2.4Ghz Magic box
(Transmitter switch) Receiver USB Cable Windows 64bit PC Fig.1 System Overview of wireless control system 1.1. Precautions This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC CAUTION Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the users authority to operate the equipment. Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. This transmitter must not be co-located or operated in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment and meets the FCC radio frequency (RF) Exposure Guidelines as this equipment has very low levels of RF energy. 2. Magic Box Overview The following pictures shows the Magic box appearance. It has two button, A and B. It transmit data when these buttons are pushed. B Button A Button Side Back Top Front Side Bottom Label Fig.2 Pictures of Magic box 3. Test Receiver The following pictures shows the test receiver for theMagic box switch. Antenna LED Indicator Power switch USB Connector Fig.2 Pictures of Test Receiver 3.1. LED Test receiver has three LED and those display is defined as follows. LED name Lights up Blink Power Power active 3 times blink : cypher key exchanged done SW 1 SW2
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Received signal (SW1 ON) Received signal (SW2 ON) 4. Setup of test receiver 4.1. Installing USB driver to PC Prior to connect the test receiver to PC, please install the USB driver which is provided by FTDI, D2XX Direct driver (CDM v2.12.28 WHQL Certified.zip) to you PC. The driver should be for Windows OS 64bit version. 4.2. Installing application software to PC Please install application software, Setup_Test_Receiver_1.0.xlsm on your PC. It is a Microsoft Excel Macro. It can be installed to any directory. The dll file, cypher_gen64.exe should be installed to c:\test_receiver Fig.4 Image of Setup_Test_Receiver_1.0.xlsm 4.3. Setting of Test receiver
(1) Power slide switch should be set to USB side
(2) Connect test receiver to PC by USB cable
(3) Check if the power indicator lights up or not.
(4) Start a terminal software, like tera term on PC
(5) Set the the terminal software to be as follows Serial port communication Baud rate : 115200 Data: 8bit Parity: none Stop bit : 1 bit Flow control : none Terminal return code setting : CR+LF (both TX and RX) Local echo : ON 4.4. Connecting serial port of test receiver with PC Push the button as follows to connect serial port of test receiver with PC. Push the button until the display gets Port Close Fig.5 Connecting serial port test receiver with PC 4.5 Paring Magic box to test receiver
(1) Enter the address of Magic box that you want to pair to yellow box. The length of address should be 12 characters 0-9, a-f
(2) Push the generate initial key button
(3) Push the Write button
(4) Push the Read button to check if writing has been done correctly.
(5) Push the Key exchange button
(6) Push the Magic box button several times.
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(5) Fig.6 Paring Magic box to test receiver 5 Logout message The example of Logout messages are shown as below. If the pairing has not been completed, the payload cannot be decrypted as the third line message. Time stamp Rx OK Sequence num Payload( not decrypted) Log out Fig.7 Logout message example when pairing is not complete Time stamp Magic box address RSSI Log out RSSI 10: Decrypted success SW A or B Decrypted payload Fig.8 Logout message example when pairing is complete 6 Contacts
(1) USA Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America Address205 Ravendale Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043
+1-201-341-6081
(2) Japan Electromechanical Control Business Division Industrial Solution Company Panasonic Corporation Address1006 Oaza Kadoma Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8506
+81-50-3487-8129