[slinkelist] communicating with an slink-e directly

[John Shankland]

I'm interested in this thread as a lurker now and a possible programmer in=
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the future. Please keep it on list if you can.

At 04:02 PM 12/29/2000 -0800, Darrell R. Kresge wrote:
>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?
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > Ed Seger
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