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Re: Software project


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Software project
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:45:11 +0000
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Steve, have a chat with Dan Hoenen over on the ACE list, - the ACE software
does exactly what you are describing, I believe....

Paul G.

>
>By way of an exercise, I thought I'd have a go at writing a Remote
Serial
>Port device driver - initially for Windows 2000/XP but potentially
98/ME
>using the Windows Driver Model.
>
>The idea is that you install a virtual device driver on your machine
that
>appears as a regular COM port but the physical port is located on
another
>machine on the network. A corresponding server component will provide
the
>other end of the 'software serial cable'. This would allow, for
example,
>HomeSeer to use a CM12 that was physically attached to another PC.
>
>Has anybody got any experience with writing such device drivers? Any
useful
>info to share?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>




Paul G.




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