Dear Youri,
well, at least concerning the "good old serial port" I could give you
and everybody a good report since even if no serial ports are
available any more on the Mac itself we address in a certain project
over 260 serial devices from a mac. We use Moxa Terminal Servers for
that, which relay serial data to ethernet and thus could be addressed
as if they were a TCP/IP socket. This even works if you have your
serial device spread over a hole campus area - and they are reliable
and built for industrial use. They're not quite cheap, but they work.
This might be an option if you want to address devices with an "old"
serial port - using something like the moxa terminal server you can
forget about all the consumer type serial-to-usb converters which
bring additional failure risks as you wrote. They work for years and
since they use industrial standart ethernet to talk to a mac or pc
you're ready for the future.
Kind regards,
Oliver
Am 25.08.2006 um 11:09 schrieb Youri:
Hi,
We have a recurring project (but no time) for developping a
solution with a data acquisition Card from NI.
Unfortunately, these devices are USB and therefore dependent on the
manufacturer's Driver. As Win machines represent 95% of the market
not many manufacturer are willing to develop for Mac machines...
I regret the time when we had good old serial devices (and ports)
without Drivers problem.
An ophtalomologist asked me to develop a little soft to be able to
load datas from his instruments directly in his Mac, but I am very
reluctant as again the only solution would be to use a Keyspan
device which doesn't always work properly.
Same apply for Suunto diving computer, Legos (don't know about the
last version thought)... Very frustrating.
My question is : Is it that difficult to make a kind of "generic-
configurable" driver for USB devices, which used to work with
simple Serial Ports not that long ago?
Cheers,
Youri
Lundstrom Design wrote:
Not exactly science perhaps but the latest edition of Lego's
robotic training kit Mindstorms seems to use a visual edition of
Labview. The good news is that it now runs on both Macs and
Windows and it is controlled via a USB device. It can however be a
bit tedious to work with, so my question is has anyone tried to do
something in RB?
http://mindstorms.lego.com/
/Claes Lundstrom
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>
Search the archives of this list here:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>
Search the archives of this list here:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
