My own RCB library ?

[inaki]

Well. I am writing my own library to access RCB controller boards on the KHR and have encountered several problems. I know some people here has been able to access this interface so I would like to pose some questions:

- Sometimes the commands I send are not received, or at least, do nothing on the KHR side. These times the Acknowledge signal (typically the byte 0x06) is not received on the PC side.

- I am using 115K/NoParity/1StopBit. Is that right ?

- I have observed, using a serial port monitor, that HeartToHeart uses to send several times the same command. Why ?

Note: I realized of the DTR problem too. I set it to LOW after I open the COM channel.

[limor]

I'll be happy to test your code.

are you using br@y++terminal for monitoring the serial connection?

[inaki]

I have solved most problems. Now it does 'almost' everything fine.
It is very interesting to control the robot directly from the PC using your own program.

Although in beta I would like you to test it. Where can I upload it ?

By the way the monitor software I used is 'Serial Monitor' from HHD software. It is simple but powerful enough to my needs.

[limor]

Although in beta I would like you to test it. Where can I upload it ?

on the left side scroll down to the "User Info" block and select "Manage File Uploads". there you can upload the files. when they have been uploaded, you can copy the link and use it here like this:
[ url=http://robosavvy.com/Builders/inaki/xyz.zip] myfile [/url]

thanks

Limor

[javi]

Iñaki, your library wouldn't be in Visual Basic ?, I just "translated" the majinga simulator, and modified it to work in local mode, and as it is coded in vbscript, I think it would not be too complicated to add a new function to it to add communication with the real robot.

I just contacted the simulator authors and I'm waiting till this weekend to know if they have any problem if I put the translated version in this web site.

Any way, I also would like to test your library.

[inaki]

It is not visual basic. It is a DLL writen in C. I think VB is able to use DLLs isn't it ?

[javi]

Yes, it's easy to use a DLL from VB. From VBS, though, I think the DLL has to be registered in the system (with regsvr32), but I don't know the requirements for that.

[inaki]

I see your point. Perhaps I could wrap the dll into an ActiveX control. Would that be easier for you ?

[javi]

I don't know, so when you post the DLL I'll try to use it "as is". If it doesn't work, then we could try the Active X way.

[inaki]

okay. I am about to release the dll. I am finishing testing functions now. In first place I will upload the dll alone (dll,lib,H, docs and samples).

In case you are unable to use it I can prepare an Activex module.