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Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988
Ok, i may be wrong, but if i am not mistaking according to the document about the camera, you can make your own "custom cable" to go to the DB9 port on the camera board. By hooking three wires to the specified pins (shown on the diagram below) and then of course hooking the apporpriote DB9 connector on the other end, i should be able to plug that into the computer and calibrate it that way...........without the hasle of taking over the cover off the camera box every time. Does that sound right?? Or does the calibration program require the use of more pins??
Sorry if you need me to explain more i can try......i am not good at explaining things........i am much better at showing someone what i mean.
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Let me help Larry explain more. The attached thumbnail only shows three connections. RX,TX and GND. Standard RS-232 protocol connection with no hardware handshaking. Seems simple.
With the programing cable (black one) connected direct to the DB-9 port on the camera and direct to a DB-9 COM port on your computer. The calibration software communicated just find with the camera.
All we want to do is "EXTEND" the DB-9 port outside the camera box. We connected RX,TX, and GND as shown in the thumbnail with a straight through connection, we did not cross TX,RX or pin 2 or 3 anytime. We also double checked the connection with a ring tone.
When we connect the same programming cable to our newly modified "extention cable", the calibration software does not communicate. Our extension cable is ONLY 3 wires. What we believe are the only required according to the thumbnail attached. RX, TX and GND. However there is no connection somewhere. We do not have enough room to connect all 9 pins up to our extention cable. We prefer only to let 3 wires pass through.
The problem is that I don't feel that RX,TX, and GND are the correct connection required to program the camera using the Java software. But what confuses me more, is that it should be a standard RS-232 connection...pin 2 and pin 3 (RX and TX)....
Has anyone figured out the fact that we need more than just 3 connections to extend the programming port? If so, what pins do we need to extend if we only got three conductors to spare to get the signals we need to the outside world?
Are just stuck extending NINE WIRES? (All nine pins????)...Seems dumb for RS-232...where are those connection!
Hope that makes sense...