>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Chastain <[email protected]> writes:
Mike> I am in a situation of being asked to make a logger for an Mike> autoclave I have no physical access to. I am working on a more Mike> general logger, which I can parse data with, but they are asking Mike> me to read data from an rs232c port which I believe is meant for a Mike> printer. I need to log what I have been told is ascii data...but Mike> I am not sure. I have been requesting an example of the data Mike> somehow but am not able to access it. (can you say middle man) Mike> Any thoughts on how I should approach it would be really Mike> helpful. I apologize if this message sounds dumb. Here are some random ideas: a) tell them you can't created a logger without physical access; b) if them won't give you physical access, tell them you already have a logger, but that they can't have physical access to it (for arbitrary and capricious reasons); c) when you do have access, write a program that opens/configures the serial port and timestamps the data it receives and dumps that to a log file or database or something. I did this in C once upon a time, and I have seen similar things in Python (or pick-your-favorite-language). -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
