I used to have a Tuttnauer Autoclave which had a printer in it. It was the "upgraded" model that comes with the printer. The other models had the RS232 serial port for logging and printing. The printer would print a header, and then every minute print the temperature and pressure on a paper roll. I'm guessing that the serial port probably output the same text in ASCII.
I agree with Nathan, see if you can get them to get you remotely connected to a PC (gotomypc.com, etc) and fire up a terminal program while being cabled to the autoclave. Once you figure out what the data speed, stop bits, and other specifics are it should be easy to make a logger for it. Or as another idea, just build a Raspberry Pi that is presetup to allow you remote access. That would give you everything you need to do your debugging, programming, and final product without having to go onsite. Sova -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan McCorkle Sent: February 3, 2015 10:15 PM To: A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland, or) Subject: Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] Autoclave data logging Maybe you can get them to install a web-connected PC that you provide, with a USB to RS232 adapter, or if they're using the port for other things already, slip this in to listen in: https://github.com/nmz787/rs232-sniffer On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Mike Chastain <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in a situation of being asked to make a logger for an autoclave I > have no physical access to. I am working on a more general logger, > which I can parse data with, but they are asking me to read data from > an rs232c port which I believe is meant for a printer. I need to log > what I have been told is ascii data...but I am not sure. I have been > requesting an example of the data somehow but am not able to access > it. (can you say middle man) Any thoughts on how I should approach it > would be really helpful. I apologize if this message sounds dumb. > > Thanks, > Mike Chastain > > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber -- -Nathan _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
