Obtaining Data From Proprietary USB / HID Device?
Jan 22, 2011
What is the best way to go about retrieving data from a proprietary hardware device that interfaces via HID USB? The particular device I need the data from is a blood-pressure/heartbeat measurement & monitoring device.The hardware came with software that downloads the data from the device and places that data into a (passworded/encrypted) MS Access database that I cannot connect to using programmatic methods, at least not without having the (admin's) password. The software provided produces reports, but the formatting renders them virtually useless (well, completely useless) for the needs of our company.
The device manufacturer provides to it's customers no API or any other technical information for accessing the data produced by their product; so, this pretty much leaves me stuck trying to figure out how to obtain the data via custom application in order to reclaim the initial justification for the expense associated with the hardware, which by the way has already been purchased.I don't need code snippits specifically, though examples would be nice; what I really need is to know is how to best approach this project, from a general design and programming stand-point.
View 2 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Apr 14, 2009
I was wondering if it is possible to send a Fax via ASP.NET without using proprietary Fax software (i.e. using all .NET native classes). All I am after is to send a generated PDF to a remote fax machine rather than a printer. There is this question already, however this chap uses a 3rd party program as the Fax software. We have no control over the remote Fax and will have little to no visibility of how the Fax is set up.
View 4 Replies
Feb 3, 2012
I have an ArrayList that is set to Friend. Once I click my button "abc" is added to the ArrayList and then the form MsgBoxes out the Count of 1 (Correct).When I use Threadpool to count the number of objects within the ArrayList it always returns 0.
Example:
Imports System.Threading
Public Class Form1
Friend Alphabet As New ArrayList
[code]....
I am obviously getting some sort of cross-thread issue here but have no idea how to correct this. I usually just setup single threads so this is my first time playing with ThreadPool & already lost at step 1!
View 1 Replies
Jun 23, 2011
im trying to make a project that obtain data from a text file and place records into a SQL server DB (.mdf).
basically i ve created my database, its ready but the thing is i dont know how to retrieve data from text file and put the records into DB
View 5 Replies
Nov 10, 2009
I'm currently working on a project where I am transmitting data from a comm device via the serial port and resorting the raw data (in binary) to its respective ascii values. The problem I'm facing is determining the most efficient method to accomplish my goal. Essentially, I have 68 bytes coming in, the first and second bytes represent the page and packet number and the data itself ranges from 3 to 64, the remaining for my checksum.
What I am needing to do is, grab 50 consecutive bytes per variable in my array, and that is where I'm confused. I have easily pulled my 3-64 bytes and stored that data to a string. I just don't know the most efficient method to accomplish my goal. Should I write directly to file all my data, as there are like 8 pages, of 128 packet data. [Code] I can capture the the first 50 by using a for-loop easily, but what would be the preferred method to track what data chunk I've taken? The more I think about it, I think I may just want to write to file, all my data, and then just take them back to back in 50 byte chunks. Is that the most efficient method?
View 3 Replies
Mar 2, 2012
I have a modbus TCP device that I have managed to connected to through my VB source code.
I want to poll (continueously read) data from certain registers of the device, and store the polled data in a file (text,csv, excel).
View 1 Replies
May 5, 2010
how can i make my program feel if any device or usb device plugged into the computer or unplugged.url...
View 3 Replies
Nov 13, 2009
A Problem in accessing a device from VB Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system. (Code 42) This error is because i am using 2 devices of the same company which has the mass usb storage on it and when i install one of the device the other hides. So one is detected the Other is not. It also give a error called designed dragnonacally something...
View 2 Replies
Oct 17, 2011
I have a usb instrument and a driver who's printed output dumps a data string to the computer I need to be able to read this string into vba The driver manual provides the content of the string but no info on how to access the data.
View 1 Replies
Aug 4, 2010
I've created a custom USB device using a PIC18F4550 and I'm having trouble with reading information from the device. The device sends reports without a request from the application as 64 bytes. I'm relatively new to VB and this is my first foray into USB as well... It's not going good. I've set the Vendor ID to Hex 1234 and the Hardware ID to Hex 0001. I've used different libraries and the timer to check for incoming reports, but I can't seem to figure it out. I've waded through pages of USB Complete and all kinds of code for mice and barcode scanners, but nothing so far that will do anything for my device.. how I can register the device and get the raw report from the device and display it in a text box
View 1 Replies
Mar 19, 2010
How can I read data from a HID device (USB RFID Reader)and which acts like a keyboard.
View 4 Replies
Feb 6, 2011
I have a sim card reader, that is a usb-to serial device. It has a sim card inserted. what i need to do is access that sim card to get the data, phonebook and sms for example. I CAN connect to the reader but i cannot send any commands or recieve any data.
What are the commands i could use to access data held on the device. The chipset is pl-2303
View 2 Replies
May 27, 2012
I know how to send data to com or virtual usb-com if it has physical com port number listed under "Ports (COM&LPT)" tab in the Windows device manager
' sending to device with physical COM port number"
Try
Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher( _
[Code]...
But how to send data to the device listed in "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" tab without any physical COM port number?
View 8 Replies
Feb 1, 2012
I have developed a simple software using VB.net, now i want to receive some data from an external device,How to read a hardware transmitted data using VB.net, where hardware is attached to a USB port?"
View 1 Replies
Jun 22, 2010
I have an xml file stored on an web server and I need to read the data using vb.net for a smart device application.I also need the ability to select indvidual nodes of the xml file. It currently a simple file but will be expanded upon. [code] I need to access the name node to start with.
View 2 Replies
Jul 1, 2009
I need some sample code for sending data to the MIDI device on the computer? I'm not quite sure what the hardware's address is though.
View 2 Replies
Nov 25, 2009
ust want to ask if its possible for me to measure how many bytes of data does a device sent to my computer using vb.net?
View 3 Replies
Nov 30, 2010
I am trying to read data from an external device using MSComm control but the problem is I am getting wrong data. I am recieving 1 byte data but the first three bits are wrong so anything greater than 31 sent from the external devices is recieved wrongly. eg. if I am sending 63(111111) from the device then the input from MSComm control gives me 159(10011111).Due to this reason I tried SerialPort from .Net framework and was surprised to see that it is working properly.
View 3 Replies
Mar 2, 2010
I have 20-30 devices that I am connecting to and gathering data from. I want to display six or seven lines of data for each device on the same screen, then allow the user to click the object containing the device and show more detail on a separate form. There aren't any other programmers where I work and am looking for advice on how most efficiently to implement this. I have tried TableLayoutPanels, Datagrids, Textboxes, ListBoxes and I am probably not implementing them right, but they don't seem to be getting me where I want to go. I am also trying to stay away from hardcoding objects onto the screen.
View 3 Replies
May 16, 2011
I know how to open a communications port and read data from a wired usb device.
How can I open a communications port to read data from a wireless bluetooth device?
View 5 Replies
Apr 7, 2010
I have USB device that is detected as human interface device (HID). The device has one button on it. I want to have more of same devices attached to one PC. I would like to simulate a click on that device (it is not a mouse!). It should be simple using Windows API, but I just can't seem to find an example or at least function that does that (I successfully found code that takes position of a MOUSE, and sends click to a MOUSE, but I need that for my HID). What i really need is an example how to simulate click on HID (something like joystick).Second question is a bit more complicated and I can't find a solution. The HID when button is clicked returns data (5-6 bytes). But data returned is immediately printed to the screen (like i typed it on keyboard) and it is followed by CR, however no data is left on clipboard. I don't know how to get that data to my program. Detecting keystrokes using Windows API (something like keylogger), or to make a control (richtextbox) and retrieve data from that control? Thou important notice is that my program is complicated, involves multithreading (cross-thread operations are a mess) and is TIME CRITICAL (as much as it can be on Windows - you get what I mean), so cross-thread access of control will slow me down a lot or even just won't work. Something like this:[code]Even if this problem is solved it still makes it buggy because user should be able to use GUI all the time.
View 5 Replies
Apr 4, 2011
Is there a way to search fast in text file? i have a 5mb text file and it is slow to search ..Im using Vs2008 (VB) and MC3100 WinCE 6 platform
Code
Private Sub DataHandler()
[code].....
View 8 Replies
Aug 25, 2009
I am developing an application which can connect to an ip address to transfer/receive data to the handheld device via gprs network.
View 2 Replies
Aug 13, 2010
I am writing a small app that is retrieving data from a device connected to a virtual com-port. I connect without problems to the device using the settings 9600-8-N-1.
I need to send the command <esc>MS , the device then sends back the data to a computer. I have tried this using Hyperterminal with success. I also did this with Excel and VBA. I used the MSComm32 Active X control:
MSComm1.Output = Chr$(27) + "M" + "S" + Chr$(13)
Msgbox(MSComm1.Input)
This made the data from the device pop up in a messagebox. I am writing a winforms app in vb.net, using VS2005. I have a form, on which I have a Placed a SerialPort control, named sp. My sample code is as follows:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal
sender As System.Object,
ByVal e
[CODE]...
This returns the error message "Error: expecting a command". I have done som tests in HyperTerminal, and have concluded with:
-If I dont send <esc>, I get error "Expecting a command"
-If I send wrong command (ie MD instead of MS) i get error "Bad command"
Based on this, I suspect that I don't pass the escape character correctly to my device. So I wonder how to do this?
View 5 Replies
Aug 6, 2009
What I am trying to do is have a button that will pop up a dialog to where you can select a directory. Then the path of the directory will be placed in a text field.Click Button > Dialog Pops Up > Select Directory > DirectoryField.Text will equal "C:Program FilesStuff"
View 3 Replies
Feb 20, 2012
How do you provide an image to the program, so the program finds that image on the screen and tells its coordinates. So if I was to provide an image of the start button, the program would tell the coordinates like (2,1000) or something similar.
View 13 Replies
Jan 12, 2010
sample_form.rtf (1.48MB). Number of downloads: 36. I have a working form to give specific choices to the user and retrieve the user's choice. (See code below and attached image in WordPad file.) I know I can use a global ("Public") variable to pass the text of the three choices from the calling form to the called form, but is there a way to pass these from one form to the other exclusively? Of course, my main objective is to have as little memory being used as possible. I would like to make the form in my example (frmDialogChoice) a generic form that can display any set of three choices.
code within calling form:
Dim intSwitchToMake As Integer
Dim insFrmDialogChoice As New frmDialogChoice
insFrmDialogChoice.ShowDialog()
[CODE]....
View 5 Replies
Mar 21, 2011
The following VB 2010 code runs, but returns only a black bitmap. I suspect the problem lies with the call to GetCurrentObject but I haven't been able to find good documentation on the arguments for it.[code]
View 9 Replies
Feb 28, 2010
Obtaining content of other application's ListBox
View 4 Replies
Oct 19, 2011
I want to be able to search the windows event log (security) on our 2008 DC to find out when a certain user logged in. Using the system.diagnostics.eventlog namespace I can search and view information based on the event Id(4624) but I cannot work out how to display the login name of the user.
View 3 Replies
