Neyolight
Full Member level 5
Hello everybody
I have been playing around with a sensor for the past 1 week and realised it has an additional feature. The sensor captures an additional physical quantity but it does not transmit this quantity on to its control software running on the computer. So, I contacted the manufacturer about how can i possibly access that physical quantity.
The manufactures told me to upgrade my firmware on the sensor ( which I did) and then implement "ASCII" command to read the data. The command is something like " GET BLA". For example, to read the physical quantity #1 you will issue the following ascii command on the serial port to the sensor.
get
Now, being a somewhat noob at programming (though I really want to be good at it one day) , I am unsure how to implement this code. I don’t know what program I can use to send " get : P1 2 " on the serial port of the sensor. The sensor is currently connected to my laptop via a serial to USB converter. Also the physical quantity Im trying to capture is stored as a volatile variable in the sensor.
It would be very helpful if I could use Excel to capture this data. Also I have to continually gather this data. It’s not a one off transmission.
Please Help ....I’m kind of lost :-?
I have been playing around with a sensor for the past 1 week and realised it has an additional feature. The sensor captures an additional physical quantity but it does not transmit this quantity on to its control software running on the computer. So, I contacted the manufacturer about how can i possibly access that physical quantity.
The manufactures told me to upgrade my firmware on the sensor ( which I did) and then implement "ASCII" command to read the data. The command is something like " GET BLA". For example, to read the physical quantity #1 you will issue the following ascii command on the serial port to the sensor.
get
Now, being a somewhat noob at programming (though I really want to be good at it one day) , I am unsure how to implement this code. I don’t know what program I can use to send " get : P1 2 " on the serial port of the sensor. The sensor is currently connected to my laptop via a serial to USB converter. Also the physical quantity Im trying to capture is stored as a volatile variable in the sensor.
It would be very helpful if I could use Excel to capture this data. Also I have to continually gather this data. It’s not a one off transmission.
Please Help ....I’m kind of lost :-?