Wireless ePaper

Centralized management of your Wireless ePaper infrastructure

As of LCOS 10.30, LANCOM access points with Wireless ePaper support now support a new protocol that ensures efficient and reliable communications between the Wireless ePaper server and access points. Thanks to the support of this new protocol, your LANCOM Wireless ePaper Displays can now be managed remotely from the Wireless ePaper Server at your data center and controlled via VPN. The new protocol will be used if both ends support the protocol and it is enabled on the Wireless ePaper server.

LANmonitor displays the protocol that is in use:

None – there is no connection to a controller/server
ThinAP1.0/UDP – protocol version 1
ThinAP2.0/TCP – protocol version 2

Note:

The Wireless ePaper Server supports "ThinAP2.0/TCP" from version 1.91. If you already use this and yet only "ThinAP1.0/UDP" is displayed here, the protocol was probably not yet enabled in the Wireless ePaper server settings. Please proceed as follows:

Check the following prerequisites:
- LANCOM Wireless ePaper Server version 1.91 or higher is installed
- cURL is installed
Open the command line on your operating system and enter the following command: curl -X PUT http:///<server-ip>:8001/service/configuration/lancomUseTcpThinMode?value=true
Restart the Wireless ePaper Server.
Then enter the following command to verify that the feature was successfully enabled: curl -X GET http://<server-ip>:8001/service/configuration/lancomUseTcpThinMode

If activation was successful the output is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Configuration key="lancomUseTcpThinMode" type="BOOLEAN" defaultValue="false" value="true"/>

The command

curl -X PUT http://<server-ip>:8001/service/configuration/lancomUseTcpThinMode?value=false

disables the function of the TCP-based Wireless ePaper protocol.