Simple Installation
Customer feedback tells us Brainboxes set up process is extremely simple – set and forget
- Connect serial port to device
- Plug in network cable and power
- Install software on windows machine
- There’s Automatic discovery of devices on network
- Connect to serial port, use as normal com port in application
Software
Network Protocols
Our Ethernet to serial devices support the following network protocols:
ICMP, IP, TCP, DHCP, BOOTP, Telnet, HTTP, RFC2217
TCP/IP Socket
You can access the device via TCP/IP sockets from any networked device. On Windows OS TCP/IP sockets are handled by the Winsock API, this will differ on other OSes.
Web Based Configuration Software
Our Ethernet to Serial Adapters allow secure configuration from a web browser. The brainboxes network to serial convertor can be configured in the following ways:
- invisible on the network
- visible to all on the network
- block connections from all devices except those specified using MAC address filtering
- allow connections from any device
Windows Software
On Windows systems we provide drivers for the serial ethernet adapter, which allows you to run software which expects to communicate over a local COM port. The software works as if the serial device is connected directly through RS232 or RS422/485 however the brainboxes driver converts serial connection over networks; either local (LAN) or from across the world. Can install on any COM Port from COM1 to COM255 and remembers your COM Port assignment on reboot.
All brainboxes software is developed and maintained in-house. Brainboxes software has been proven to work where other manufacturers software fails. Have a specific requirement? please get in touch.