Thanks for the reply JBot...
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Have you been able to communicate with the robot controller at all with
this particular setup? Is IFI Loader running while you are trying to connect
with dashboard viewer?
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Yes, everything else works fine in regards to the joystick controllers running
in both tethered and remote mode...
And No, IFI Loader was not running while I was trying to use the dashboard
viewer...
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And are you sure it's COM1? I've seen some older machines make COM1 a
modem link, so opening that would be opening communication with the
modem. Try all the COM port options in the menu in Dashboard Viewer.
Make sure none of them work. If none work, you might try checking if
your port is installed correctly--I'll walk you through this if you need it.
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Yesterday, while I had the OI connected, my laptop had its only com port
set up for com1 and it was set to (9600,N,8, 1) and I changed the baud
rate to 19200. Also, I tried Com2 & Com3 on the dashboard set up also
but received the same error trying to communicate to the port.
So this morning, I went into the CMOS and set the com port to Com2
and made sure it was enabled (as it was for Com1). Also, this morning,
after switching the to Com2 in CMOS and booting up, I verified that
no other device was using Com2 or IRQ3 in device manager.
Then, I launched the dashboard viewer and it came up showing the
dashboard.
One thing that is different is that I do not have the OI connected
as it currently is at the team's workspace and I am at home with my
laptop.
So, I changed the port assignment from within dashboard viewer to
Com2 and received that error message again
(even with no OI connected)
It seems to display the dashboard when the correct COM port is not selected
and when the OI is not connected.
This afternoon I will verify if the dashboard viewer will display with any of
the Com ports selected with and without the OI connected.
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A complete sanity check: you are running Windows on a PC, correct?
Not any of that Mac emulation software? I had read about issues with
some serial hardware when used with the Mac emulation software.
I won't be able to help if it's not a PC.
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Yes I am running XP SP2 on a Dell laptop... I will check it out closer this
afternoon when my laptop and the OI are in the same room.
Thanks for your help!