Re: Serial Bridge

["danward79" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

I thought I would post an update.  I found that I was doing something
wrong.

Firstly my msg's did not comply with the serial wrapper, for the
bridge.  Kevin pointed me to it.  See page 22 here.
http://www.xapautomation.org/content/xapspec.pdf

Secondly the other Kevin suggested that the hub may be filtering the
msg's befor the viewer saw them, so I set up the viewer on another
pc, so it was the hub, and allowed it to show all poorly formed
msg's.  When the msg's showed, they did not always show under the
correct device so look in the tree root, and if you double click them
it tells you what is wrong with them.  By doing this I "Debugged"
my
msgs.

Now all is working well.

I hope this helps if you have not sorted this already.

Dan

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Ian Davidson" <ian@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to get Patrick's serial bridge to work. I have a hub
running
> and the viewer and they can see my Xap traffic. I have run the
bridge
> and it is seen in the viewer with a heartbeat every minute. I have
> specified com1 which it acquires correctly. I have com1 linked to
com3
> via a serial cross over cable with HyperTerminal running connected
to
> com3. (I have tested the com setup with two HyperTerminal windows
and
> all is ok). I was expecting to get my Xap traffic out of the com
port
> but no data is present. I also tried pasting a Xap packet into the
> HyperTerminal window but it did not show in the viewer although a
saw it
> go out of the port (TX light flicker). Do I need to do anything
else?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Ian D
>