AREV Read Serial Port (AREV Specific)
At 19 OCT 1998 08:57:46AM Ken Procious wrote:
Running AREV 2.12.
Have an application that I need to read scale date
using the serial port on the P/C.
Has anyone done this?
Thanks in advance.
At 19 OCT 1998 11:36AM Richard Wilson wrote:
I wrote something a few years ago using Arev 3.? that I migrated
from Revg2b & Arev 1.16. The comm port was tied to an electronic
scale that fed data to the Arev app.
I'll try to dig up the code, its somewhere one one of the Pc's
around here.
If you have more details that would be helpful
At 20 OCT 1998 08:45AM Ken Procious wrote:
Richard -
Application is used at an Aggregrate plant where trucks loaded with material are weighed. The scale has a digital read out but also a standard RS232 connection that will send the weight to a serial port of a P/C.
At 20 OCT 1998 08:59AM Richard Wilson wrote:
I found some of the old prgms. they used V124 function within
arev. We also were weighing packages (UPS size however). You may
want to take a look at the documentation on V124.
I'll be out the rest of the day but should be able to
provide some sample prgms tomorrow.
Also you might want to start looking at the pin out of
the db25 or db9 connectors, I remember having to jumper
some of the pins
At 20 OCT 1998 09:06AM Richard Wilson wrote:
Also you can start to communicate with the scale
by using any communications software (procomm/hyperterm/etc)
to see what type of response you get from the scale when
typing on the keyboard.
Also, If I remember correctly v124 only liked com1 & 2
I could be wrong on this, its been a long time
At 20 OCT 1998 05:02PM Richard Wilson wrote:
Ken, I found those two programs which controlled a scale using
v124. why dont you send be your email address, Im not sure
everyone else here would be interested in a couple hundred
lines of code
At 22 OCT 1998 08:44AM Ken Procious wrote:
Richard - Email Address is [email protected]
Would appreciate any type of information.
Thanks
At 23 OCT 1998 04:56PM Kevin Kastelic wrote:
Hello,
We here use serial input for both a scale, and to capture all phone calls made through our Merlin Legend Phone system, using V124.Just a tidbit, be forwarned, most load cell and digital display combos send alot of extra info to the PC, Use A robust filtering routine, if you need an example, i can send you one.
Kevin Kastelic
Network Administrator / Database Programmer
Sharp Packaging Systems
email: [email protected]
At 31 OCT 1998 04:45PM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
One of the Developer's Series disks had some information on running V124 off other serial ports.
At 01 NOV 1998 04:13PM Larry Wilson wrote:
Send me your e-mail, and I send ASM source for reading/writing any serial port (I compile one for each serial, but you could call with an argument; it's just slower). BTW, did you need to set BAUD rate, parity, etc?
Larry Wilson
TARDIS Systems, Inc.
http://members.tripod.com/rehabsw (new site, but old is still good)