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Other projects => Past projects => #twatch network LCD backpack => Topic started by: andrew on February 02, 2010, 01:45:42 am

Title: Virtual Serial Ports
Post by: andrew on February 02, 2010, 01:45:42 am
Ahh the joys of DRM....

I can't seem to find any (free as in beer) virtual serial ports that work with 64-bit Windows 7.

com0com & com2tcp looked promising, claims to work in win 7, but didn't for me. Got a cryptic error message when trying to create the virtual port.

The one linked from the page about using lcd smartie with the twatch (http://http://dangerousprototypes.com/2009/09/17/prototype-network-lcd-backpack-with-lcd-smartie/) wants money for the 64 bit version.

Anyone had any luck in 64 bit win 7?
Should I abandon hope and write my own python script?
Title: Re: Virtual Serial Ports
Post by: ian on February 02, 2010, 08:29:58 am
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about Win7. I believe there is an example in the pyserial documentation that implements a virtual serial port, that might be somewhere to start looking.

If you come up with a solution, will you please share? I'm sure someone else might find it handy.
Title: Re: Virtual Serial Ports
Post by: andrew on February 02, 2010, 12:32:21 pm
I'll give that a look.

Hacking the LCD Smartie code might also be an option.

Will report back when I make some progress :)
Title: Re: Virtual Serial Ports
Post by: Scorpia on February 02, 2010, 10:05:39 pm
There was talk of limbo modifying LCD smartie with a plugin as well but i think he has been busy .

I wonder if lcd smartie has a plugin that could be modified.

edit: Just found this http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1415 (http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1415)
and this http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1419 (http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1419)

but maybe this should be for a new topic, i dont want to get this off topic.
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