We want to log our phone system to track employee usage... we just had it setup so we have long-distance access codes, and the owner wants a montly report to compare to the phone bill.
Anyway, I got the null modem cable, hooked it up to my laptop and fired up hyperterm - I'm a complete newbie in regards to serial communications, but I was able to start recieving the data after dinking with some settings (hit or miss style).
I wanted to do the same thing with linux, since working with/formatting text files is so much easier, so I started googling and came up with minicom. I haven't been able to get that to work, though.
So I googled some more, found that I can (duh) just go $cat /dev/ttyS0 > log.txt
Cool. So, there's some messing around left to do (as far as trying to break the log files up into days, have them scheduled, etc... lots of other stuff I'm not that good at) - so any suggestions on making this thing work smoothly are very welcome.
But my main reason for posting this is to try to figure out why the hell I can't get the data though minicom. I know everything's working and connected properly... and I'm pretty sure I *should* be able to get the data through minicom, so it just bugs the hell out of me that I can't figure it out.
Any help out there? Thanks a million.
Anyway, I got the null modem cable, hooked it up to my laptop and fired up hyperterm - I'm a complete newbie in regards to serial communications, but I was able to start recieving the data after dinking with some settings (hit or miss style).
I wanted to do the same thing with linux, since working with/formatting text files is so much easier, so I started googling and came up with minicom. I haven't been able to get that to work, though.
So I googled some more, found that I can (duh) just go $cat /dev/ttyS0 > log.txt
Cool. So, there's some messing around left to do (as far as trying to break the log files up into days, have them scheduled, etc... lots of other stuff I'm not that good at) - so any suggestions on making this thing work smoothly are very welcome.
But my main reason for posting this is to try to figure out why the hell I can't get the data though minicom. I know everything's working and connected properly... and I'm pretty sure I *should* be able to get the data through minicom, so it just bugs the hell out of me that I can't figure it out.
Any help out there? Thanks a million.
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