The protocol offers some limited means to detect and handle collsions.
Some converter designs allow to switch on and off the ports individually.ĭue to the single-wire bus design, collisions can occur when two rigs (or a rig and the computer) transmit data at the same time. the incoming data is sent to all ports (CI-V and RS-232).
If more than one rig is connected to the converter, syncing between the two rigs is still possible. This setup allows to remote control the rig with some software on the computer, depending on what the rig and the software supports. Usually a CI-V converter has more than one connection to a rig (typically four). To connect to the RS-232 serial interface of a computer, a level converter is needed which converts the TTL (5V) level of the CI-V interface to the RS-232 level of the PC. Picture 2: Connecting a rig to a computer
