[slinkelist] communicating with an slink-e directly

[Darrell R. Kresge]

Hmmm, very odd indeed.  It might be that you're sending the wrong code for
"get-serial-number" (it's 0x0C, not 0x0B.)  As a test, I just attempted the
same thing on my slinke and received a reasonable response.  I have no idea
where the FF 86 is coming from -- looks like a cross between a "normal"
response, and a serial buffer overrun.  Can you provide more detail on how,
exactly, you're interacting w/ the Slinke in DOS? Feel free to mail me
directly if the other list participants aren't interested in this thread...

[dkresge@ratbert Slinke]$ ./a.out
.
.
received SIGIO
got 10 bytes
0xff 0x0c 0x95 0xde 0x78 0x38 0xce 0x61 0x06 0x29
[dkresge@ratbert Slinke]$


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Seger" <ehseger@att.net>
To: <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: [slinkelist] communicating with an slink-e directly


> Folks,
>     Has anyone ever built and sent commands directly to the slink-e
without
> using the active x or cpp code supplied?  I am trying to use the slink-e
> from a DOS computer to control a few changers.  The commands in the nirvis
> help don't seem to be the same that the slink-e uses.  CDJ works fine, and
> when I capture the serial stream I get a very different response than what
I
> see in the help files.  I think I have the correct baud and settings
because
> I see the slink-e serial number coming back.  Here is what I send to ask
for
> the serial number:
>
> FF 0B
>
> I get nothing back
>
> CDJ gets this response from the slink-e when it asks:
>
> FF 86 36 EC F5 39 14 67 BC C5
>
> The FF and 86 do not match anything in the help files.  Any ideas?
>
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