Re: Sharing a device on a serial port.

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rb_ziggy wrote:
> Is it possible to / how can I...
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> ...share a device on a serial port with two different applications
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> Normally it seems that the first application locks out any others and
> the serial port is seen as 'in use'.
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Some clever apps do achieve this (they can snoop on bidirectional serial
traffic) - have a rummage for example here..
http://www.aggsoft.com

> The specifics is a Meteor CID on a direct attached serial port. I want
> to be able to grab the incoming data by a xAP plugin and also by
> COmfort's ACE Server.
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Do you by any chance have two serial ports available ? - if so you can
feed this received data into the two ports simultaneously (wire the RX
data pins on the PC's serial ports in parallel - but NOT the TX ones !)
> Similarly can I do the same with a Lantronix MS100 with the port
> redirector software running (I have a couple of other devices hanging
> off these)?
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I think I'm right in saying an MSS100 can feed data to multiple
destinations simultaneously - or is it that multiple destinations
(MSS100's) can combine traffic, can't remember which just now... which
way around are you trying to achieve this (1 MSS100 to many destinations
or other way around ?)

K
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> RIchard
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