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Posted by: macrumpel on 2021-01-12 09:52:13
Hello
i have serial devices (plotter, scientific) which are connected to a serial to Ethernet server from moxa. Does anybody know about a open transport extension to allow this kind of connection from the chooser? In Archicad I can directly choose TCP IP as the connection protocol for the serial plotter. But from other software I cannot choose the tcp ip protocol. Open transport gives me Other than the internal printer / modem port, infrared and internal modem for my PowerBook. Was there any software extension to allow what I want?
thanks
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2021-01-12 10:19:41
If the device uses PPP over serial, then you could try MacPPP It works with OpenTransport.
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Posted by: macrumpel on 2021-01-12 22:28:58
No, thé devices use normal serial protocole. But I will try MacPPP to see if this can be tweaked.
i will let you know. Thanks
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Posted by: macrumpel on 2021-01-17 21:28:51
Actually MacPPP does the inverse and allows TCP IP connection over existing serial ports. I need to connect to a serial device over TCP IP by the Ethernet port or whichever port is chosen in the TCP IP control panel. It is like a virtual serial port which is very useful.
any ideas?
thank you
Hubertus
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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-01-17 23:40:06
I'm not sure that any drivers like this exist for general serial use. There is a communication toolbox tool to do it, but that's really aimed at terminal emulators and the like, and you can't just arbitrarily select it as a printer driver, alas.
You might have better luck knocking up or finding a dongle based on something like an ESP32, I'm afraid. I'm pretty sure there are howtos out there on the Internet.
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