Help prequired for reading serial port data !!

**tolisn** · 07-03-2005, 05:36 AM

Hi.

I'm trying to read in the voltage of my car's battery using the temperature sensor commands. Is there any way to suppress the "C" of the "F" unit onthe end of the reading. I have made a custom analog to digital unit that reads the battery voltage and outputs the reading to the serial port using the same format
that RR requires to read. I can read this using the Tempxx command but I get the following reading "12C" instead of "12" is there any way to suppress that
"C" or maybe Guino you can insert a command that will permit us to read the serial port (using the same format as the temp sensors) but will not contain any units such as "C" or "F" ..e.t.c

Thanks for your time

**paran0id** · 07-03-2005, 07:19 AM

One way to do that would be to make the changes yourself to the source
and recompile it, perhaps adding a checkbox in the conf if "C" or "F" should be added.

**dmurray14** · 07-03-2005, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by tolisn

Hi.

I'm trying to read in the voltage of my car's battery using the temperature sensor commands. Is there any way to suppress the "C" of the "F" unit onthe end of the reading. I have made a custom analog to digital unit that reads the battery voltage and outputs the reading to the serial port using the same format
that RR requires to read. I can read this using the Tempxx command but I get the following reading "12C" instead of "12" is there any way to suppress that
"C" or maybe Guino you can insert a command that will permit us to read the serial port (using the same format as the temp sensors) but will not contain any units such as "C" or "F" ..e.t.c

Thanks for your time

Sorry I can't help with the display, but can you share more info on this device you have for reading the voltage?

Thanks

**mauri** · 07-03-2005, 10:33 AM

I have make one adapt hardware a long time ago,for read the voltage, full compatible with RR...
See in the old post for download this project.

Mauri

**guino** · 07-03-2005, 03:21 PM

I somewhat have to agree with Mauri where the Temperature sensor does not rovide a good range of values to where you can read say: 12.00 and 12.02 and 12.06 etc.. instead it you'll give you larger steps of readings like 12.00 and 12.20 and never anything in between... I have been using mauri's voltimiter for the past few weeks and it has been working great...

in any case, the C text can easily removed by simply changing the tooltip to anything you'd like.. "0" for tooltip will display the raw number from the Temp sensor .. "0.00" will display the raw number from the temp sensor with 2 decimal digits.. you can add more text to the readin using || on the label code...

**tolisn** · 07-04-2005, 12:12 AM

OK Guino thanks for the tip on suppressing the "C".

What command do you use to read in the info from Mauri's voltmeter?

Thanks

**guino** · 07-04-2005, 12:57 AM

just "VOLTXX" where XX is the number of the sensor -- there's only 1 sensor in the first version of his circuit, but says he that he improved it to support 4 sensors now.

Any circuit that output data in the propper format can use it... the format is just:

VX NNN
VX NNN

X is the number of the sensor and NNN is a number that represents the voltage on a linear scale... NNN=600 is equivalet to 11.78V and other values are derived on the same scale -- It basically comes down to 0.02V for each unit in NNN.

**tolisn** · 07-04-2005, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by guino

just "VOLTXX" where XX is the number of the sensor -- there's only 1 sensor in the first version of his circuit, but says he that he improved it to support 4 sensors now.

Any circuit that output data in the propper format can use it... the format is just:

VX NNN
VX NNN

X is the number of the sensor and NNN is a number that represents the voltage on a linear scale... NNN=600 is equivalet to 11.78V and other values are derived on the same scale -- It basically comes down to 0.02V for each unit in NNN.

I did not know such a command existed. It is not documented in the skin command file. Thanks Guino.

**mauri** · 07-04-2005, 07:29 AM

Write in RR.ini this string:

vcomport= X (number COM port to you connect the hardware)

Mauri

**tolisn** · 07-05-2005, 07:46 AM

Hey Guino

Is it possible to have two different sensor readings on the same com port.
One value with the format, Vx NNN will contain data from a voltage reading and one value with the format identical to the temperature format that you are using. I have made an interface that outputs both of these values on the same port.