Re-2: USB/Serial issue (FTDI EasySync)

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 11/27/06, runrev at animabit.de <runrev at animabit.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a program in runrev communicating with an acoustic analyser via RS232 (functions properly) and now work in
> communicating to a USB relais for regulating the dc in the object we make the measurement on.
> After reading this message and the docu I am not sure: Can I use USB universal serial bus in runrev or not?
> The SDKs (dlls, C,C++ and Visual Basic) normally offered with the hardware I cannot use in runrev native.
> Should I write a Visual Basic wrapper to communicate using the shell?
>

Revolution cannot communicate directly through a USB port. However a
USB to serial adapter attached to a USB port does work, because Rev
sees it as a serial port, not a USB port.

I have encountered the problem where hardware comes with APIs for
accessing the USB port and I have never been able to use such things.
The only hardware I have been able to access through Rev is hardware
with a serial port and a published set of commands for controlling the
hardware over the serial interface.

If you can control your hardware using shell commands, then that can
also be done through Revolution, without having to have a wrapper in
any other language.

Regards,
Sarah