Protocols

ASCII Control Protocol

Alcorn McBride products can be controlled from 3rd-party devices by using the built-in ASCII command set. The command set for X-Series devices can be found on the Commands page.

UDP

Commands should be sent to UDP port 2640. Commands should be terminated with the Carriage Return character, represented by hexadecimal value 0x0D. Responses will also be terminated with a Carriage Return character.

For example, to play a sequence on a V16X named "mySequence", you would send a UDP packet to the IP address of the V16X, to port 2640, with the following data: mySequencePL<0D>, where <0D> is a carriage return character. You might also see carriage returns written as '\r'.