Serial Port on Colour Touch Screen

Discussion in 'C-Touch/HomeGate/SchedulePlus/PICED Software' started by kcampbell, Jul 11, 2005.

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    kcampbell

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    Hi,
    I have been trying to poke some simple text out of the Com Port on a Colour Touch Screen. (To see if it works, then when it is working, send commands to an AV amplifier...)

    I used Com 1 as a first attempt, and got errors from the unit. (Can't remember exactly, but it was when I tried to open the port.)

    Assuming that I had the wrong port, I rewrote the code to use 1, 2, 3 or 4 (so I could find which one did work).

    The error went away, but I'm not getting anything out. (Am using a null modem (crossover) cable it that helps.)

    Anything I can use to debug this?
     
    kcampbell, Jul 11, 2005
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    Good old Hyperterminal should give you what you need (asuming you are sending printable ASCII characters).

    It's not great at everything but should suffice for what you are doing.

    I dont know if you need a NULL Modem cable or not, as I don't have a Colour Touch to check, but it will probably be in the documentation somewhere.
     
    rhamer, Jul 11, 2005
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    One of the other chaps should be able to help you more than I can - but from what I can remember, COM2, COM3, and COM4 are used internally as part of the Colour Touchscreen design. So I'd guess COM1 should be your best bet.
     
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    You can only use COM Port 1 with Colour C-Touch. I have just updated the help file to reflect this.

    If you use any other COM Port, the logic engine will give a run time error number R111.
     
    Darren, Jul 11, 2005
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