Where to set Mindray BC-5150 HL7 communication port number and ip address

Question

I'm working on a LIS TCP communication service with the Mindray BC-5150 laboratory device, and I could not found where to put the communication settings (service address and port number),but I did found where to set the network settings of the device itself (ip address, mask ...)

So my question is the following :

• How to set the ip address and the port number for HL7 communication service in the mindray BC-5150 ?
• If there is no such settings, is there really a way to establish tcp communication knowing just the ip address of the device ? I guess some port scanning is required if I'm not mistaking.

Note : Same for the Mindray bs-20

Answer 1

In BC-5150, port number is fixed and it is 5100

Answer 2

I have the same problem here, I am using mirth connect on my computer. I understand that BC 5150 has the port set to port 5100 and the Analyzer always act as the server while LIS PC should act as a client.

Now how do i send an initial socket connection request from the Mirth TCP listener to the Analyzer so that the analyzer now knows where to send its results.

I have some java code to establish the connection but where do i put it? and how will the analyzer know which port to client is listening on ?

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class MyClient {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String AnalyzerIP = "192.168.1.100";
            int AnalyzerPort = 5150;

            Socket socket = new Socket(AnalyzerIP, AnalyzerPort);

            // Now you have a socket connection to your Mirth server!
            // You can send data over this socket.

            // Close the socket when done:
            socket.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

from the above answers; "Once the handshake is completed, the server will push the results through that socket to the client pc. " But how does the server know which port the client pc is listening on?

This is quite confusing to me. I have also worked with other analyzers before, and the setting was simple since the Analyzer had an interface to enter the exact LIS ip address and port number to send results.