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Serial Settings:Wire Mode

Short name: Wire Mode

Member of the Serial Instr class.

This property represents the current wire/transceiver mode. For RS-485 hardware, this property is valid only with the RS-485 serial driver developed by National Instruments. For RS-232 hardware, the values RS232/DCE and RS232/AUTO are valid only with RS-232 serial drivers developed by National Instruments and documented to support this feature with the corresponding National Instruments hardware. When this feature is not supported, RS232/DTE is the only valid value.

Valid values include the following:

-1 Unknown
0 RS485/Wire4
1 RS485/Wire2-EchoDTR
2 RS485/Wire2-CtrlDTR
3 RS485/Wire2-Auto
128 RS232/DTE
129 RS232/DCE
130 RS232/AUTO

Remarks

The following table lists the characteristics of this property.

Data Type
Access, sessions use Read/Write

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