{"id":144,"date":"2020-09-01T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/?p=144"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:33:31","slug":"232key-pro-0-7-4-nci-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/232key-pro-0-7-4-nci-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"232key Pro version 0.7.4 released &#8211; NCI protocol support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve released 232key Pro 0.7.4 with support for the NCI General Serial Communications Protocol (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.averyweigh-tronix.com\/globalassets\/products\/postal-scales\/postal-software-downloads-and-drivers\/nci-protocol-serial-rs-232\/wtcomm-activex-control\/document-3--nci-standard.pdf\">described in this PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This protocol is not only used by NCI, Brecknell and Avery Weigh-Tronix scales (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois_Tool_Works\">ITW<\/a> brands\/companies), but also others like the Ohaus Aviator 7000. One of our users has kindly confirmed that it works perfectly with his Brecknell GP250-USB scale.<\/p>\n<p>To use this bi-directional protocol, first select it as the <strong>Device<\/strong> in the <strong>Input<\/strong> tab, press the <strong>Set defaults<\/strong> button and confirm that all settings match those of your scale:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/NCI-protocol-scales.png\" alt=\"NCI protocol for scales\" width=\"547\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/NCI-protocol-scales.png 547w, https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/NCI-protocol-scales-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, go to <strong>Control<\/strong> tab, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/documentation#polling\"><strong>enable polling with a hotkey<\/strong><\/a> and click on <strong>Set default command for NCI<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/nci-protocol-hotkey.png\" alt=\"NCI protocol: Hotkey to request weight\" width=\"547\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/nci-protocol-hotkey.png 547w, https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/nci-protocol-hotkey-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you press the keyboard shortcut, 232keyPro sends the &#8220;W<span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">&lt;CR&gt;<\/span>&#8221; command to request the weight to the scale, processes the response and types the weight at the cursor position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/download\/\">Click here to visit the 232key Pro download page<\/a> (fully functional trial version, expires on September 30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve released 232key Pro 0.7.4 with support for the NCI General Serial Communications Protocol (described in this PDF). This protocol is not only used by NCI, Brecknell and Avery Weigh-Tronix scales (ITW brands\/companies), but also others like the Ohaus Aviator 7000. One of our users has kindly confirmed that it works perfectly with his Brecknell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/232key-pro-0-7-4-nci-protocol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">232key Pro version 0.7.4 released &#8211; NCI protocol support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"232key Pro version 0.7.4 released - NCI protocol support","_seopress_titles_desc":"This version supports the NCI General Serial Communications Protocol, used by NCI scales, Brecknell scales, Avery Weigh-Tronix scales and others.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,8,6,7],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changelog","tag-avery-weigh-tronix","tag-brecknell","tag-nci-protocol","tag-ohaus-aviator-7000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartlux.com\/232keypro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}