How to check the battery level of the audio or BlueTooth version VP3300 reader?

Owned by Yan Mu
Last updated: Feb 02, 2024
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Step-by-step guide:

There is a "read battery level command" you can issue to the reader to check the battery status.  

Please issue the get battery Level command F0-02 to get the status. If the data level >= 0xD2 indicates the Battery power full. if data level <= 0xC0 indicates Battery power is low.

  1. Connect the audio or BT VP3300 to a USB Port on the PC right before you start this process (otherwise the battery is charged up via the USB port of the PC)

  2. Launch the dot NET SDK Demo found in the Universal Library for Visual Studio - Home - Knowledge Base - Confluence (atlassian.net) and wait for the reader to be detected 

  3. You can send the F0-02 command following the numbered steps as shown in the screenshot below:

  4. Check the response returned in the Log window for the battery level byte (#6 in the screenshot above). If the data level >= 0xD2 indicates the Battery power full. if data level <= 0xC0 indicates Battery power is low.



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