Where do I start with LUA

[Rob H]

He may not have removed the serial port as such - a lot of motherboards have headers for serial ports and use a flying lead attached to a backplate slot. He may have had to remove that, although he should have put it back in another slot.

[Solosid]

Hi Rob,

That was a brief moment of jubilation...

'yes its gonna be inside the box'

however my case has a slide of side...and there's nothing in there!

question is... is it better to put in com port or two

or use a usb to com converter thing?


cheers

Mark

[Solosid]

Hi All,

Right...1 new 2port serial pci card installed...

1 new lead fully wired straight...

1 lua code installed in devices folder (file from post 19)

1 teac listed in TM and listed as connected

1 transport send code with '81 73 01 F5' in it (I've no idea what this means)

and this is the response..


SEND 81 73 01 F5 �s
õ
LOG: My Teac AG-980 Transport : 4 - No response to last send


any idea what going on??

Cheers

Mark

[Solosid]

the serial protocol data looks something like this...


0x01 power on
0x02 standby
0x03 TUNER input select

etc etc

the system id is 0x8173

where and how do i link the two

what should 'hex as strings' look like

cheers

MARK

[VicVonDoom]

did the teac come with a "test disc"?
if it did, close down girder, connect the unit, bung the disc in, open up your 232sniffer & see what it logs.....
That'll tell you if your checksum is correct - most serial stuff ignores the command if isn't

[Solosid]

Unfortunately it didn't....

I have posted the protocol in an earlier post

I can't seem to see anything in lookrs232 when i press the buttons on the Teac...

also when i try connecting com1 (which there isn't one) lookrs232

its says connected.... so when it says com8 is connected... i'm not convinced

is there anyway of showing what is connected to what???

this rs232 is killing my will to live....

I stocked up on them nurofen you recommended.....


Mark

[VicVonDoom]

dude, not all devices connected via 232 will out a 232 command when the front panel is adjusted (shinybow certainly doesn't)

are you using xp or vista?

[Solosid]

vista32

cheers

Mark

[VicVonDoom]

dammit. i use xp & could tell you some basic checks to see if the coms ports were ok.

There is another way - but it means using raw serial commands from girder.
this in turn will mean harleydudes efforts with the transport manager would have to be 'returned to later' once we know coms is ok....

[Solosid]

I don't know enough about girder to know where to start...

Cheers

Mark