30-01-2006, 22:16
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Re: Dashboard Port - Hyperterminal?
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Originally Posted by BillyJ
I'm trying to create my own dashboard program, so I figured the first step would be to make sure everything is as I expect by checking it in Hyperterminal.
I use the info in the dashboard_spec file from IFI, but try as I might, I can't get it to display anything other than non-characters (a bunch of wierd symbols).
Somewhere here I read that 19200 wasn't the correct rate, but even changing that to the suggested one wouldn't work.
How should I go about doing this?
Thanks
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19200 shold be the correct rate. The dashboard works by sending the ASCII characters for the numbers, e.g. 176 would be sent as "°", not "176".
If you don't want to mess around with the low-level stuff, Sean Witte has a programmable dashboard wrapper at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=593
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