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Originally Posted by binary_sandman
[color=Green]our programing team has made a wonderful custom com-1 output and has a problem with establishing a connection and wondered if any other teams had this problem.The program via hex file has a problem sharing with the custom com-1 output their we have to run one at a time. when we have the custom com-1 open the the controller dose not Respond to drivers vies versa.
we think it has to do with program Identification with robot code.
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Our programming team has made a custom program that attaches to COM1, but it can't establish a connection. Have any other teams had this problem? The program that downloads the hex file has a problem sharing the connection with our program, it only lets us run one successfully at a time. When we use our custom program, the RC will not respond to drivers commands via the OI. We think it has to do with the robot identifying the program.
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Thanks Dave =)
So from what I understand, you made some kind of a system to communicate with your robot. What is this program trying to do? The only data you can get from the RC is the hex file... not much use having that.
Assuming your using the programming port to send data and you are using this program to grab that information... there's no need for a custom program. All you need is a terminal program. I recommend
Bray's Terminal, it's simple and it works. If you can't download anything onto the laptop, Windows comes with a terminal. It's called HyperTerminal and can be accessed by going to Start > Run and typing in
hypertrm. However, if you do use this, be aware that it
is a Windoze program and most likely won't work as expected.
Your interference problem will still consist with another terminal. You can't have two programs accessing one RS232 port... the one that got there first will lock all others out.
-Mike