Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, I have a need to dial a remote site that is a data logger, I.E. I don't want to run PPPD. I need to dial the site and interogate the logger, downloading it's data and then terminating the connection all in an automated fashion. I can currently do this manually using minicom, but I wish to automate the process. Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. Have a look at C-Kermit, you can automate almost anything to do with modems via scripting. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ -- Regards, Graham Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Modem Dialing software
Sluggers, I have a need to dial a remote site that is a data logger, I.E. I don't want to run PPPD. I need to dial the site and interogate the logger, downloading it's data and then terminating the connection all in an automated fashion. I can currently do this manually using minicom, but I wish to automate the process. Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. I've looked at wvdial and chat and they look like they are mostly intended for establishing a ppp session to an ISP, or are they more sophisticated? They look like they can expect ogin: and send a username and password, so I assume that they can then palm off to another program at the end of the script. But the chat script looks very simple, I.e it doesn't appear to support branching and what happens if you send a string and get no response? I.E. the expect doesn't match. Will it time out and return to the next line of the script? Tips, pointer suggestions appreciated. I'm kinda hoping that a simple chat script is the way to go. TIA's Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, I have a need to dial a remote site that is a data logger, I.E. I don't want to run PPPD. I need to dial the site and interogate the logger, downloading it's data and then terminating the connection all in an automated fashion. I can currently do this manually using minicom, but I wish to automate the process. Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. I've looked at wvdial and chat and they look like they are mostly intended for establishing a ppp session to an ISP, or are they more sophisticated? They look like they can expect ogin: and send a username and password, so I assume that they can then palm off to another program at the end of the script. But the chat script looks very simple, I.e it doesn't appear to support branching and what happens if you send a string and get no response? I.E. the expect doesn't match. Will it time out and return to the next line of the script? Tips, pointer suggestions appreciated. I'm kinda hoping that a simple chat script is the way to go. The Conversations or hanshakings before and after the modems are connected will be similar. The difference is once you have connection instead of executing PPPD, execute whatever Comms program you wish to execute along. Another perspective as to how to connect via modems look for examples on how to connect using UUCP program instead of PPPD. Maybe you may even just use UUCP to interrogate your logger, download the report and terminate the connection. But you need to setup UUCP on both machines, of course. Extra work, but once working little maintenance is required. TIA's Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. Look for BBS dialer programs. Exceedingly common a decade ago. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 08:13 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send something else or hangup. expect! http://expect.nist.gov/ It's kind of like chat on steroids. Should be able to handle everything you need, if you can figure out the somewhat terse documentation. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
