[TenTec] ORION2_COMMUNICATION_WITH -2_DEVICES

[Carl Moreschi]

My N4PY Orion control program works with the Orion and Orion II and steppir
at the same time.  You use the steppir Y cable to allow the steppir
controller to just listen on the serial port.  My N4PY control program takes
care of polling the Orion for frequency information.  There is  way to setup
the steppir controller so that it will not send any information on the
serial port which is the key to making this work.  In this configuration,
the logging or control program must do the frequency polling and not the
steppir controller.  I have many users of my program doing this.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George" <goofyham at highstream.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:52 PM
Subject: [TenTec] ORION2_COMMUNICATION_WITH -2_DEVICES


> Anyone have their O2, or O1 for that matter working with the SteppIR
controller and their computer using a RS232 DB9 Y cable. I called the
SteppIR people and they said nada, no, it won't work!
> >From my limited background it would seem that one cannot have two devices
trying to communicate with the third with the RX and TX pins 2 & 3 tied
together.
> The SteppIR Y cable came with pins 2-3 and 5 connected to the O2 and the
same pins to my computer and that just won't work!
> I guess what I'm saying is how can I get my Orion2 to communicate with my
SteppIR control box and my logging program at the same time????
> Has anyone wrote a program to accomplish this? I could hook the Orion2 to
a computer com port and the SteppIR box to another of my computer Com ports
and let my computer do the decision making which should get what.
> Thanks.
> George
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