I'm working on a project where I need to trigger an event when a switch is closed. It is my understanding that it is possible to use the control lines on a serial port and read whether the switch is closed or not. I've found a schematic of how to connect the switches to the pins, but I have not been able to find any example code on how you can read the state of the switches.
View 2 RepliesTill drawer, connected to Com1, 9600,0,N,1 and a windows forms appThe drawer uses the RI line to show if the drawer is open or closed, but I cant find a way to read this line from the SerialPort control.. Been working on this for a while, but no dice!
View 4 Repliesi am a absolute beginner and i want to use vb to receive data from micro controller through serial port using rs232 standards, i found this code to receive the data serially, can any one tell me where should i paste this code, so that the data received will be displayed in message box.Private Sub DataReceived(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) HandlesSerialPort1.DataReceived
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I'm mohammed from Oman ,I'm visual studio.net programmer How I can Read the Data From Barcode Weight scales By Serial port and TcpIp port
View 7 Repliesi am new to VB.net and i am writeing a program to read a serial port and if there is any thing in the buffer i want to read the data and put it in a string then clear the buffer
View 1 RepliesIve got a big problem.I need to read data from the serial portIve used serialport from the toolbox , but dont know how to use it.I used to do it on a Amiga like this
open serial("serial.device".0.2400.0) rem(open port)
repeat GW.w=readserial(0)
if gw>29 and gw<128
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I am trying to read data from rfid tag using rfid reader. i can connect reader, but cannot get data?
View 4 RepliesI am using a VB.NET(VS2010) to read data from serial port. I have 8-bit data to collect through rs232. This data is represented numbers. What reading method should I use and how to convert it to double format?
View 4 RepliesI need to read data from the serial port Ive used serialport from the toolbox , but dont know how to use it. I used to do it on a Amiga like this
open serial("serial.device".0.2400.0) rem(open port)
repeat GW.w=readserial(0)
if gw>29 and gw<128
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I am using Scanpal2 to read data and as per its documentation as follows
View 8 RepliesI have a teperature PCB that reports the temp back via serial port. I can open Hyper Terminal and receive all the data I want - so I know the unit is working... but I want to create a VB app so I can use the data received. When I run the program I get this error:
System.TimeoutException: The operation has timed out.
at System.IO.Ports.SerialStream.Read(Byte[] array, Int32 offset, Int32 count, Int32 timeout)
at System.IO.Ports.SerialStream.Read(Byte[] array, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
at System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.InternalRead(Char[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count, Int32 timeout, Boolean countMultiByteCharsAsOne)
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I working on modbus software. I am able to communicate with the modbus slave. The only problem with me is after i write the message on the serial port , i read the serial port for data after say 100ms and i use "system.threading.thread.sleep(100)". This freezes my program for a while. Can you please help me build the logic for reading the serial port after say n no. of seconds without using "system.threading.thread.sleep". I am new to vb.net. I am using .net 3.5sp1 and vs2008.
View 6 Repliesi cannot read data from my serial port..i am using HYPERTERMINAL on my other computer(computer 2)..i can send data from my computer(computer 1) and it showed on computer 2..but when i type things into my HYPERTERMINAL in computer 2, the Visual Basic program cannot read it??this is my code:
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My current program can read in a continuous stream of data when initialized and I can send a command to retrieve the devices stored data, I also have within the same program code that will read an XML file and populate from controls.
I have two separate idea's right now that I'm trying to merge into one
I want to read in XML and populate my controls. I'm aware of delegate and Invoke but I'm having a hard time working them into my XML portion or the opposite "working my XML into my serial port class".
Actually I have a Weigh Bridge (A Large Scale weight mechanism which weighs in Tons) , for which we use an ELECTRONIC WEIGHT INDICATOR which display the weight on its own digital screen while it has an option to connect with a pc via Serial Port,,I just want is to have its weight (Digits) in a text box of my VB.Net Program,Here I want to mention that I know technical settings of my weight machine such as
Bite Per Second
Data Bits
Parity
Stop Bits
Etc,,,
This code was published a few years ago by stanav. I have it reading my Com1 db9 port but having some issues.i have tried adjusting some timeouts, but then, it may just sit there.Jarbled Text - I should be getting results like "SOHEM709US 17946US 1114 US62RST 123456789 201107141703 01 " etc., instead I am getting "3B?B?B?????99?F?F?3B?B?B?CAD?1? ? ?2?8?3?0? ?0?1?6"I/O Error - The I/O Operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.
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I have written a sketch to an arduino board to send data to the serial port. How can I tell VB to only read from the serial port when data is sent to it? I have been using the timer.tick and tried to sink it with the delay I set in the arduino
View 2 RepliesI am trying to read data from serial com1 port. Now, I am not sure how to send. I found so many method to send but that are not so good and I cann't read any data. I am using VB.net 2005. Which is the best way and how can I read and send?
View 1 RepliesUsing Visual Basic 2008 How can i read data returned from the serial port . also how can i clear the buffer.
View 6 RepliesI have a problem with read() method of serial port class, when I build my program my application doesn't respond or blocked!!
My code was something like this:
dim bRxdata(6) as Byte
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serialport1.read(bRxdta, 0, 6)
I use vb 2008 xpress, win7 x86.
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I have a problem with my program. i can't read any data from serial port. when i click on open the rs232 has to read but it doesn't.i use the program in a pdf(ADAM-4000_Ed-15).[code]
View 3 RepliesI have an application in Electronics to communicate with serial port. With using VB I have succesfully read a character using
Serialport1.ReadByte
or
Serialport1.ReadChar
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I have a timer control that sends data to a hardware every 3 seconds. I sent 6 bytes of data. In return I am expecting 8 bytes of data in DataReceived event. First time I send 6 bytes of date, in DataReceived event, I get the expected 8 bytes. Then in next 3 seconds, again the expected 8 bytes of data is received. But after that I find that DataReceived is fired 2 times: first time I get 6 bytes and then I get 2 bytes. After that I again get 8 bytes as expected. So in short, 2 times I get 8 bytes as expected and 6 bytes and 2 bytes and again 8 bytes. This pattern is repeating continuously. Why? Is there any reason why I cannot get all 8 bytes everytime? Note that the code is in vb.net 2008
Code in button btn_Start ()
'Set serial port parameters
x.PortName = "COM1"
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I'm trying to copy to the clipboard a text that is read from the serial port, but when try to use:
Clipboard.SetText(MyTexo,MyText Format) give me the follow error: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it.
Im using VB.Net 2008 and is a single form program. What could be wrong.
I am trying to read the data from a device on a serial port. I connect just fine and can receive data fine in text mode but not in binary mode. I am using VB.NET express. I am at the point in my code where I know that the device is sending 1056 binary bytes of data. How do I go about storing this is a binary array? After I have the array stored (which I dont yet) I need to go through the array and convert the binary to integers. They are 2byte integers in the format: 8bit MSB|8 bit LSB.
View 5 RepliesI am trying to make a program in vb 2005 to real all the data from a device connected on Serial Port (Com 1).i did this: [code]and this is how i want to reciveit.when i lounch the program i only receive first line "410001+00000001" and after that i get on the device rs232 error.
View 6 RepliesI got an Arduino hooked up to the PC and would like to read the serial port of it. I read the serial port in Visual Basic with com.Readline, but it won't read everything. It looses around 2-3 lines that were sent over the serial port to the Visual Basic code. They get "lost".
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Using 2008 VB.Net trying to do serial communications. I have a Scantron scanner I can send data to it, but I can not get read data back sent to my serial port. I have tried ReadLine, ReadByte, etc. but i'm not capturing anything, and I don't understand the DataReceived event. [Code]
View 15 RepliesI'm working on a project involving reading RFID tags, I've written the code and it reads the tags ok by using the recieved data handler and displaying the result in a listbox, the only problem is that the data displayed has a couple of unreadable characters at the start (I'm using ReadLine() command.)If I read the buffer byte by byte the data is all readable.How can I read and display the whole 16 Bytes in one go??
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