Rick, and other interested time-nuts: I think the thing to use is Robot Basic: http://www.robotbasic.org/ It's simple, has useful simple graphics, runs on its own (no Windoze .net stuff) and best of all is free. There are examples to learn from etc. and a couple of inexpensive books for the novice. It's not as sophisticated as say Visual Basic 6, but neat. A debugged satisfactory program can be .exe'd so the Basic program need not be running to use the application. Also has hooks to a USB interface and net stuff if you need it, and of course serial interface. Highly recommended!!! Look it over. Don Latham
Richard (Rick) Karlquist > The XT-Nano-XXL looks very interesting, and the price is good. > > With these kinds of hardware devices, the question always > arises as to what to use on the other end to talk to the > device. I see that ak-nord has a virtual com port driver, > which many vendors have. It would also be interesting to > see if two of the XT-Nano-XXL devices could talk directly > to each other without any computers being involved. The > manual talks about a "tunnel" mode, but shows the Nano > connected to the box with 2 serial ports. > > The other problem I have with these kinds of devices is > what to do about software to talk to them. Some devices > come with free software that has basic functionality to > debug the hardware. What I would really like to do is > to get an API and build a simple interface program with radio > buttons, etc that control relays etc. The problem is > that I am not a programmer. I keep looking for a tutorial > that explains how to do simple Visual Basic or something, > but I consistently run into two showstoppers. 1. The tutorials > cover only the VB or C++ language, and not the mechanics > of compiling, linking, libraries, and .dll files. 2. > The tutorials assume the program talks only to the "console" > (keyboard mouse and monitor). No discussion of connecting > to the LAN and interfacing with the hardware. What I > have seen written about these topics is incomprehensible > to me as an analog engineer. > > Rick Karlquist, N6RK > > Christian Vogel wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >>> Likewise, there are also versions of MCU's with TCP stacks available >>> too, as well as things like this... >>> http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport.html >>> >> ... >> >>> Basically, an embedded TCP/IP<>Serial adapter, with bells on! So you >>> can use existing device designs that would use a serial link to the >>> host, and "add" network connectivity for that need, with no (well, >>> little) design overhead. >> >> When I was looking for something simmilar, a relative recommended >> >> http://www.ak-nord.de/ak/product_info.php?products_id=33 >> >> which he uses at work to access interfaces internal to their product >> during testing. It should be what the "xport" is, but adding i2c and spi >> ports. Unfortunately, I didn't find time to procure one, or even test >> it. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
