PK2 UART tool

[cncmachineguy]

Follow up, after googling for a while, I ended up back on PBP forum reading a thread started by Hank. The gist concerning this thread is UART tool won't do what I want. I need to use a real terminal or custom GUI. Well I don't plan that level of effort for the testing I am doing, So tonight I will try 1 last thing.

If I can fit the data on 1 line, maybe I can send a "header" so to speak as the first line, then the data all out on the next line. When I send new data, I will send the code for backspace to see if I can get to the beginning of the data line and send the new data.

[Archangel]

Hi Bert,
It sounds like you want to receive data and display it line over line in a "console" or dos type environment so it displays as :
DATA WORD 1
DATA WORD 2
DATA WORD 3
DATA WORD 4

. . . is this correct ? Assuming it is then given a typical DOS " MODE" you could see
80 x 40 characters.On screen.
You would likely have to write this program for the PC probably in " C ". Or using VB in a GUI environment. Another option is to write your USART to output HTML and view in a browser . . . HTML could format text to display that way, I THINK.

[cncmachineguy]

Hi Joe, that is mostly correct about how I want to display the data. But I want to overwrite the values with new values, not scroll them as the uart tool does now.

I have no idea how or where to start to get data from a com port to a browser window. Next issue I have no idea how to get data from pk2 to an application. But I have spent time trying to learn both python and liberty basic, so maybe I should try and make an app for displaying the data. Dave (makracket) has an example of python serial on his website. So maybe I could head down that path.

[mister_e]

What you want to do, most, see all, ANSI terminal would do it. Hyperterminal, TeraTerm and so on.

Check this link on Darrel's Website
http://www.pbpgroup.com/modules/wfse...hp?articleid=9

You could also hack the PK2 code, it's open source and really well documented.

It's up to you

It's also easy to do in VB or C#, lots of example 'round the web. The Express version are free for non-profit use.

[mackrackit]

Here is some old stuff I was helping some kids with.
Look at the "liberty" code "remote..." if you go the Liberty route.
http://mackrackit.com/mac/www/dave/basic.html

[cncmachineguy]

The weather station looks almost perfect as is. Accepts a stream from com port and puts the data in the boxes.

[Archangel]

I found this if it helps:
http://www.electronic-engineering.ch...s232debug.html
http://www.electronic-engineering.ch...hip/index.html