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Mach Discussion => VB and the development of wizards => Topic started by: fdos on December 29, 2006, 06:59:33 PM

Title: Available serial commands?
Post by: fdos on December 29, 2006, 06:59:33 PM

Any of the Mach VB guru's know if Mach can now recieve data on the rs232 port?

I know it's possible to send with SendSerial command, but did Rx ever get implemented?

Wayne....

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: Brian Barker on December 29, 2006, 11:26:42 PM

Nope :(

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: fdos on December 30, 2006, 09:04:30 AM

Brian

Thats a real shame..   I could be able to do so much more with my homebrew PLC if I could pass verbose messages back to Mach.

I guess I'll have to continue using an input for Acknowlage which has it's drawbacks.

Wayne....

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: Brian Barker on December 30, 2006, 10:40:37 AM

If you set up to run over modbus you can do it :)

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: drew on December 30, 2006, 11:13:21 AM

So if I want to set my VFD by serial command I can only send the command and I can't receive the reply.

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: fdos on December 30, 2006, 11:40:17 AM

Quote from: Brian Barker on December 30, 2006, 10:40:37 AM

If you set up to run over modbus you can do it :)

Yes I know about that archaic Modbus Protocol ;)   Maybe I'll go that route unless something better comes along.

It's just I have a simple PIC based I/O controller that costs next to nothing to make (<$10) , has as much I/O as you could wish for and can be programmed in Basic.

Is there any reason in particular that RS232 Rx is not supported?

Wayne....

Title: Re: Available serial commands?
Post by: Brian Barker on December 30, 2006, 05:54:47 PM

No just that we are done working on new stuff for mach3 and are now working on Quantum. Mach3 is finished other then bug fixes  ;D