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Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Blog Archive

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Microscan MicroHawk: Switching ID and ► 2019 (12)

MV modes ▼ 2018 (19)

► September (1)

► August (1)

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▼ June (2)
Enabling Telnet on Windows 10

Microscan MicroHawk: Switching ID and

MV modes

► May (2)

► April (4)

► March (6)
The Microscan MicroHawk MV-40 and ID-40 can run ID code reader or Machine Vision
► February (1)
firmware.
► 2017 (3)
These are the steps to boot it to either firmware.
► 2016 (1)

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Plug it in ► 2012 (2)

Plug in the power and the Ethernet cable. Get a power and a link light.

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Setting IP address

The default IP address and subnet are:

192.168.188.2
255.255.0.0

Set your PC's network card to:

192.168.188.225
255.255.0.0

Open Settings | Ethernet. Click on Change adapter settings.

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Right click the Ethernet card, select Properties.

Click Internet Protocol 4
Enter the IP address and subnet:
192.168.188.225
255.255.0.0

Then OK your way back out.

Ping to check connection

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Open the command prompt.

Enter the command:
ping 192.168.188.2

You should get 4 replies from the camera if all the IP's are right.

Telnet to camera to change boot settings

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Enter the command:

telnet 192.168.188.2

If Telnet doesn't run follow the instructions here to activate it as a Windows feature:
http://lowtechllcblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/enabling-telnet-on-windows-10.html

You will be asked to log in to the camera

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The login is:

target
The password is:
password

Once logged in the prompt will change to ->

To see the camera license enter the command:

BP_Dump

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The ID code read license is AutoVision or AutoID, and the Machine Vision license will have a
name like MV or Machine Vision.

Check the firmware available

Command sbp will show the boot parameters

A list of firmwars will be displayed.

There is an arrow [=>] pointing at the firmware the camera is using right now.

In the image above, the camera is using Firmware #4, the machine vision firmware.

Change the boot option (booting a different firmware)

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Enter the command lbp 3 [the format is lbp # where # is the number of the firmare in the list]
This will set the camera to boot the AutoID firmare.
The camera will reboot.

To change it back, youo need to Telnet in again and use command lbp 4

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Web Page
You can also tell what firmware is running by opening the camera's web page.
Open your browser and enter 192.168.188.2

The ID reader web page looks like:

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The Machine Vision web page looks like:

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Posted by LowTech at 7:35 AM

Labels: ID-30, ID-40, Microhawk, Microscan, MV-30, MV-40

4 comments:
MiGz February 20, 2019 at 7:16 AM

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Hi LowTech, thank you this really helped me a lot. One more thing can you show me how
to change the subnet of the microscan camera via the telnet command..

thanks
-migs

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LowTech February 26, 2019 at 11:33 AM

Not sure, but the serial commands may work over telnet.
See appendix F for serial commands in microhawk ID Manual
https://files.microscan.com/downloadcenter/microhawkidmanual.pdf

The preferred way is to use the Microscan ESP software (Easy Setup Program)
https://www.microscan.com/en-us/products/barcode-software-and-
connectivity/esp-easy-setup-program-software

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MiGz August 1, 2019 at 1:31 AM

Hi again have you experienced the microscan not connecting to autovision but can be
pingged to cmd?

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Leonel Gzz July 23, 2020 at 8:59 AM

Maybe the firmware version of your sensor dont match with the version of your
Autovision, use Microscan´s Device Firmware Update Software to update

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