RE: xAP COM port interface?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

This is a similar request to the one I posted a while ago - I too, am still
interested :)

Not sure I still understand the process of getting a serial product in the
land of BSC though?

For example, I have an amp, DVD and plasma that I'd like to xAP enable.
They report status changes and can be controlled by serial messages (quite
a large set of possible instructions).

How would I go about doing this?

I still think a generic Serial interface of some kind would be great -
where you can define the commands to be sent and received.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:xap_automation@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Hawkins
> Sent: 07 September 2005 01:03
> To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xap_automation] xAP COM port interface?
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> There is an outline BSC Skeleton application that has all the
structure
> inbuilt to create devices as BSC v1.3 . Thus if your device was
mappable
> to a few binary, level or text based devcies this could work for you.
> You could even reflect the whole serial data as a BSC text device if
you
> wanted.  I never quite finished it although it is used for example in
> the TOM10 connector. If you wanted the source code for this - it is in
> VB6 then I can send you it .It works fine... apart from....
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> There is one potential other issue and that is that we have discovered
a
> memory leak in Patricks xAP OCX and it is taking a little while to
fix,
> this causes an increasing memory footprint with every xAP message
> received  :-(  but I am hoping we will see a new version soon.
>
>      Kevin
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> garygfx wrote:
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> >Does anyone know if such a thing exists please? This would be a
little
> >app to monitor a COM port (rs232) for Windows and create xAP msgs
for
> >any packets of data it finds. It wouldn't be masses of data, we're
> >talking bytes here and there for control and monitoring purposes.
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> >It would be cool if it worked the other way around too and sent
data
> >down the COM port when received via xAP.
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> >Thanks,
> >Gary
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