Is there a free software wedge that works with virtual serial ports?

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Any recommendations on a software wedge that works with virtual serial ports?

 

[n0cmonkey]

What's a virtual serial port?

 

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
What's a virtual serial port?

For the balance that we use, it's connected to the computer using a USB cable, but it is not true USB. It sets up a virtual COM port when it's turned on.

 

[Smilin]

What's a software wedge?

 

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Originally posted by: Smilin
What's a software wedge?

It's a piece of software that, for my purposes, takes the data, from the balance, that is sent to the virtual serial port, and allows me to easily put it into a windows application, like Excel.

 

[EagleKeeper]

You would have to find something that is customed designed to capture the serial data and format for the specific target application or dump it out in some Ascii text file that could be processed at a later time.

If you know the communication data protocol; you could use a standard hyper-terminal to capture the data and store it to disk. How you would massage it for external use is up to your needs

 

[Smilin]

Hm. If you are using Virtual Server you have quite a few options available to redirect serial output.

Named pipes are commonly used for debugging.. set the named pipe up with syntax like:
\\.\pipe\<name>

Then fire up your debugger on the host machine with:
windbg [-y SymbolPath] -k comipe,port=\\.\pipe\PipeName[,resets=0][,reconnect]

Virtual Server also lets you redirect com ports to a text file which might be more useful.

If you are trying to somehow make something output to a serial port, the "mode" command in Windows might do what you are after. check it out.

Honestly I don't really think I'm following you at all though sorry!