I chose Visual Basic 8 as a computer interface to communicate through RS232 (serial) to my microcontroller, which in turn will do its own thing to transmit data it receives from the VB GUI through wireless
I have used VB before but it's been a long time. I looked at some of the settings and it looks like it has a SerialPort com component I can use. Will it suffice for this project?Might be a simple question, but just want some tips from experienced developers.
I have developed a microprocessor based devise. It can communicate with laptop through RS232 as a VB application. Now most of laptops have USB port only. So I want to use USB replacing RS232 port on laptop side but not change anything on the device side. Can I do this using a USB-RS232 converter? How to change the VB software?
I need to create a program that sends & receives data via rs232. I have done it many times in VB6 with easy.
Why is so hard in vs2008?
I managed to send (or so I think). Because I can see the LEDs flashing on my board connected to the pc. But I do not get any response back from the board.
The reason I do it in vs2008, is because I need the program to run on a PDA. But to understand how rs232 works in vs2008, I just created a simple program for the pc to talk to my board.
for example, I send:
SerialPort1.Write(Chr(2) & "I" & Chr(3)) and I expect back (into a textbox), a hex string 25 characters long.
The board also send data to rs232 sometimes, without me requesting it.
So I am trying to get info from a scale using an RS232 cable into a VB2010 program. But before we even start talking about that, I don't know ANYTHING about serial ports. I need to learn how to get the data from the scale without programming first... I am using Win7. I do have a sample program (w/ source) I downloaded [URL]) It runs without any errors, then I have a big USER error, what do I push? How do I tinker to figure out the right settings on this interface? or any interface. These are the sittings for the scale: [URL] I am considering returning my scale and getting something with maybe USB on it, I need to be able to weight things up 100lbs, I am shipping car parts.
I was wondering about something: is there a way to communicate with another program/process on the PC without using files? What would this look like? Is there a search term I can use to get more info? This is not a vb.net question per se, but a general software question.
I have a wireless handheld Barcode terminal that is running Windows CE 4,1 .net And i use a Program that is called Mamut Enterprise E4. I am also using VB 2008 to try to code in. how to communicate?
What I am looking for here is a way to possibly click a button inside a web browser control and have it call a sub from inside the program or have the program react to something on the page. I am trying to make a HTML5 GUI for my application. I don't really want use any 3rd party API's to handle commands from a HTML5 interface but if I can find another alternative that would be good. But if there is no other way I would be content with using a 3rd party API.
I have created a Windows service that acts as a server for my app on a mobile platform. Whenever a user sends a message to my app I process it . Now i Would like to send the message that the user sent to my server to an application. Something like SendMessage would be absolutely perfect But how do you fit a whole class into the Wparam and Lparam 's of a window message ?
I am trying to connect a PC with peripherals thru RS232.The PC program has to send and receive value in HEX to peripherals.However, the value sent out seems to arrive at peripherals in ASCII.Following is two of my trial codes:
Private Sub Button1_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim HexArray(8) As Byte
My program connects via the rs232 port to a pump and it managed to start the communication and sending data. But the problem arises when i try to read the return signal from the pump to pc. This is the piece of code i've used:
Code: Dim returnbyte(0) As Byte Dim ByteIndex As Integer = 0 Do While ClassSerialPort.BytesToRead <> 0 ReDim Preserve returnbyte(ByteIndex) returnbyte(ByteIndex) = ClassSerialPort.ReadByte() ByteIndex = ByteIndex + 1 Loop
[code]....
I obtain the following results:
Code:... 6 12 0 0 0 92 ...
From the manual i understand which byte to read. For e.g 6 = ACK. The problem is how to interpret the 4 bytes together in a string for e.g 0 0 0 92 means 9.2ml ?Is there any way to read the decimal point?
I have downloaded the vb script and it works as it should, its a program where you have some buttons so that you could trigger the relays.But i need several small scripts, one for each relay on / off so that i can call them from a .bat file with argument.i have a .bat named relaycard and in thet i have created argument like
relay1on relay1off relay2on relay2off and so on.
The small program relay1on should just do the jobb and then close itself.Maybe its a little bit clearer now.On the link that i posted there is a manual and even links to the vb program,
I have a Delphi program that communicates with a vb.net dll that I created. The vb.net dll communicates with a Fluke scope meter via an RS232 connection. I have created a program that communicates correctly via RS232, giving me the anticipated value. Though, when I package this up as a dll and access the dll from my Delphi program I always receive a value of "1", rather than the value I was expecting (most cases a value in and around 240).I know that my delphi program is definitely communicating correctly with the dll and that my dll is definitely communicating with the scope meter
Here is my vb.net code: Public Interface IFlukeComm Function GetReading(ByVal Command As String, ByVal PortNum As Integer) As String
How can I get the port name (COM6 for example) for a given hardware ID, such as USBVid_04d8&Pid_1234, and vice versa? I'm using an RS232 to USB interface.
I currently have software that sends out plain text(i.e. 'X') to comm 1 port and was wondering if there was any way to capture that plain text and also respond to that port on the same compute as the port without having anything plugged into the machine (i.e. 9 pin serial cable). I am trying to avoid buy any more hardware as this is an objective to acutally cut down on hardware.
I am trying to read a packet of data which has come in from RS232. I need to be monitoring the port until data comes in to be actioned. I have been doing this fine for some time using the following code:
Dim strline As String = Nothing Dim comPort As SerialPort Dim bIsOpen As Boolean = False
[Code]....
The code above works without a problem unles byte 1 or two are greater than 127. Basically, all of the characters that are not converted seem to be 128-255.
I am using VB 2008 express. Clearly I need to read each byte individually and store it as a byte within an array instead of a string but i am not sure how to do this.
how to get around this either through reading bytes properly or through using a different encoding format
I am using a GSM modem RS232 where a sim is inserted. I want to write a VB.NET application so that i can send or rcv messages using the modem. How to proceed for same?
At the moment, I need to write a simple peice of software using VB.
I have a computer with VB2008, a RS232 interface; a electronic scale with RS232 interface; a cable with two female sides(this cable is file transfer cable, it enable data transfer between two computers according to the instruction)
My task is to connect the scale to the computer and the computer will keep track of the data sent from the scale.
how to get started? I'm new to VB and have no background in seiral communication, please give details.
My first question is: I have connected them together with the cable, how can I make sure they are really conected (able to communicate)? And can anybody give a peice of code to let me start building on that?
i would like to know a method that can read data via rs232 ( i use pic 18f452 to send 5 values(pression, temperature, current, voltage and solar radiation ) of Adc conversion )i successed to read one value at first ( sending one value via pic) , but i couldn't read more than one at end
so, question is how to do that ? how to separate between the data?
Possible Duplicate: Creating a Serial Port in code in VB.net
I wanna connect RS232 to vb in order to set an input for motor such as the steps and motion. I'm really new with VB. I'm using VB2010 express. Can you help me with the coding?
Possible Duplicate: Creating a Serial Port in code in VB.netye. I wanna connect RS232 to vb in order to set an input for motor such as the steps and motion.
i have some code here that is used for a project, the code is used in visual basic 6 and i am using visual studio 2008 in the project i have to communicate with a PIC micro controller, i do not know what to do because in visual basic 6 w use MS comms and in visual studio 2008 uses a serial port thing code below.[code]
I need to write and read data from a RS232 port. On the RS232 port there is a RFID Card reader-Writer connected. So I need to send hex codes to the device, and have to poll every 1sec if there is a card in the system. If there is a card I need to read the info that is on the card. My biggest problem is I think is that I am not sure how many characters there will be in return after the read command (maybe it is always the same length this I am not sure). What is the right way to read-write to the com port. So I always got the same result and not skipping a code.
I want to create an application in VB.net that will read data outputted by a RFID reader on serial port.I want to know how will my application be able to identify the interrupt generated by Serial port and will read data from there?
Does anyone knows how to program using vb.net with rs232 module?, all i know is that i should use a compolet, but i can't understand a thing regarding the sending and receiving bit data to the machine..
im using VB 2008 and been trying to use the RS232 at 5 baud and setting the baud to that rate seems to go ok but when put in pratice it seems way to quick and doesnt work. I put that down to its to slow baud rate and not supported. I only want to send 1 byte so tryed it manualy by this ........
