This is part 2 of the PTZ camera tracking project. This time I power up the main PCB and try to talk to it over RS232 from a serial terminal. Not much else to say here, so you’ll have to watch and see if it works or not!
Well, at least you're getting SOMETHING back! Really enjoying how you walk through the whole process of troubleshooting and reverse engineering--lots to learn here!
Serial forever! I'm troubleshooting a ~20-year-old PCB transport mechanism with sparse information about its command set. Similar to your situation, it's serial but using binary values instead of ASCII. I'm hoping to crib some techniques from you. :)
Yeah, I don't think serial will ever go away in the robotics/automation world. All of my customers want to use 9600 8N1 probably because they're old school and are afraid of programming with sockets. There is some mixture of EtherCAT and ethernet, but serial is alive and well!
I was wonder wondering if you ever got comunication to it..... because the swith that you said its for "Baud rate" is actually to set comm. Type..... swith. '1,2 &6 is RS484.. . For RS 232 com you need swith 5 ON, swith 1,2,3,4&6 off
