[PD] comport questions

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, <CR> is most likely carraige return, which is 13 in ASCII:

http://www.asciitable.com/

So you need to send something like (ASCII values):

[13 42 112 111 119 61 111 110 35 13(
|
[comport]

.hc

On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Py Fave wrote:

> just to be sure ..
> CR means carriage return
> beware with these on windows.
> 
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> 2012/11/29 Pagano, Patrick <pat at digitalworlds.ufl.edu>:
>> Benq says the rs232 is for control
>> 
>> this is from the manual
>> 
>> Type     Operation    ASCII
>> Write /Power On/ <CR>*pow=on#<CR>
>> 
>> Could the Type? Be preventing it?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Peach [mailto:martin.peach at sympatico.ca]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 5:41 PM
>> To: Pagano, Patrick
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Subject: Re: [PD] comport questions
>> 
>> On 2012-11-28 17:16, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
>>> The benq tech says it should work for commands. I am going to try with another projector, but I can't believe they would put in an rs232 port only for firmware upgrades?
>>> 
>> 
>> Dunno. where did you get the command list from? (Stuff like
>> <CR>*pow=on#<CR>)
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:47 PM, "Martin Peach" <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It should work. You could try using a terminal program to manually connect. From skimming the manual for that projector it says the RS-232 is for firmware upgrades only...
>>>> 
>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>>> On 2012-11-28 14:34, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> 
>>>>> With the recent talk about comport I have tried to use it to control
>>>>> a BenQ MX660P Projector and I am having no response from the machine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> RS-232 protocol
>>>>> 
>>>>> Baud Rate
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 115200 bps (default)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Changeable(2400/4800/9600/14400/19200/38400/57600/115200)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Setting in OSD menu
>>>>> 
>>>>> Data Length
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 8 bit
>>>>> 
>>>>> Parity Check
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> None
>>>>> 
>>>>> Stop Bit
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1 bit
>>>>> 
>>>>> The command to turn it on is:
>>>>> 
>>>>> <CR>*pow=on#<CR>
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I am getting no response from the machine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am using the ascii list of bites to send the message, maybe this
>>>>> is incorrect?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Perhaps someone may shed some light upon this for me?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am on Windows7, pd 42-5 extended
>>>>> 
>>>>> Patrick Pagano, B.S, M.F.A
>>>>> 
>>>>> Assistant in Digital Arts and Science
>>>>> 
>>>>> Digital Media Projection and Audio Design
>>>>> 
>>>>> Digital Worlds Institute
>>>>> 
>>>>> University of Florida, USA
>>>>> 
>>>>> (352)294-2020
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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