[time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Mark Sims
If you are using the Linux / macOS version of Lady Heather the com port selection rules are a bit different. You specify a com port number 1 greater than the operating system device number. This horrible kludge is due to the fact that Linux starts numbering com ports from 0 and Windows starts

Re: [time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 10/30/2016 9:57 PM, Alberto di Bene wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but, if memory serves, you can only choose between COM1 and COM2. Higher port numbers are not accepted. Well, I was definitely wrong... I looked at the readme.html document of LH, and it says, when describing the command line

Re: [time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Alberto di Bene
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Re: [time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Ken Winterling
Alberto, If you want to always use COM3 you can edit the properties for the shortcut you use to activate LH. That way just clicking on the LH icon will start the program on the correct COM port. That is more convenient than using the command line every time. Here is how to do this: Right

Re: [time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 10/30/2016 4:15 PM, Richard Mogford wrote: I read that to change the COM port in Lady Heather, you type “/“ and then the COM port number, such as 3. So you enter “/3” to change to COM 3. i tried this, but it does not seem to change the input COM port from 1 to 3. Maybe I am wrong, but,

[time-nuts] Change COM Port in Lady Heather

2016-10-30 Thread Richard Mogford
I read that to change the COM port in Lady Heather, you type “/“ and then the COM port number, such as 3. So you enter “/3” to change to COM 3. i tried this, but it does not seem to change the input COM port from 1 to 3. I checked and the other settings (BPS, etc.) are the same between the two