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I saw someone was using something like the card in the link below on there system for some networking gear on their pc. I am very curious what a person would need 8 serial ports for. What kind of stuff uses this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124041&cm_re=serial_card--15-124-041--Produc…
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I need to virtually bridge two real serial ports, i.e. COM1<-COM6
I'm not sure it can be done with com0com - can it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_port_redirector
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Using Ruby SerialPorts Gem to interact with hardware. When I write a byte array to the hardware using a program called "Serial Port Monitor" the hardware responds correctly.
However, when I write the same byte array using ruby it doesn't work unless I do a read request just before the write request…
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I have an application that listens to a piece of hardware on a USB to Serial converter. My application should monitor more than one serial port at the same time.
I loop the serial ports I need to listen to, and create a thread for each port. In the thread I have my data handing routine.
When I assign…
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I'm using the ruby serial port gem. After I open up the port I send the data I want like this.
sp.write [200.chr, 30.chr, 7.chr, 5.chr, 1.chr, 2.chr, 0.chr, 245.chr].to_s
It doesn't work, but if I put it in a loop of around 200 times:
200.times do
sp.write [200.chr, 30.chr, 7.chr, 5.chr, 1.chr…
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