Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-18 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:23:31PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: [snip] > Since I'm probably the worst person you could ask, hopefully one of the > many shell scripting gods inhabiting this mailing list will chime in on > how do useful work in shell scripts with serial. I've typically used kermit

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-11 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:42, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > J.C. Roberts wrote: > > You could automate everything as a shell script using only the > > utilities in the base install, in short telnet over serial. > > > > > > sounds interesting, i'll see what i can do with this first. any > furthe

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
J.C. Roberts wrote: You could automate everything as a shell script using only the utilities in the base install, in short telnet over serial. sounds interesting, i'll see what i can do with this first. any further info you could provide here would be nice. I usually don't get the luxur

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-11 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 21:51, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i am planning on pulling live rate data from some manufacturing > equipment using a red lion rate meter with RS-232 or 485 interface > > http://www.redlion.net/Products/DigitalandAnalog/Counters/CounterRate >/CUB5.html > > what is the b

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-11 Thread Marc Balmer
* Per-Erik Persson wrote: > I don't have any webpages to throw at you but converters from rs232 to > rs485 exists. > Also plugins cards to soekris that I would assume to be working. > > I have a lot of stuff I plan too hook up to OpenBSD, but have not found > a good way to get the data out without

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-11 Thread Per-Erik Persson
I don't have any webpages to throw at you but converters from rs232 to rs485 exists. Also plugins cards to soekris that I would assume to be working. I have a lot of stuff I plan too hook up to OpenBSD, but have not found a good way to get the data out without writing to much code. It feels like

Re: reading sensor RS-232/485 output

2007-01-10 Thread Marc Balmer
* Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i am planning on pulling live rate data from some manufacturing equipment > using > a red lion rate meter with RS-232 or 485 interface > > http://www.redlion.net/Products/DigitalandAnalog/Counters/CounterRate/CUB5.html > > what is the best way to pull this data, usin