Use serial port to READ state?

jstrom

Hi!

Playing around with some old 9088's for home sound, got a running years but still very nifty stuff!
I got software controlling them over the serial port, and writing values works splendid. Reading the values works fine as well, when there is a change on initiated by something other than the serial port. However, the one thing I'm missing is reading. I'd want is to, when my app is starting, be able to read out the values for the devices I'm interested in.
Is this possible in some way? The Soundweb app can (apparently) do it fine on startup, but I suspect it's using some \"private\" protocol. Are there any docs which could be opened for this, so we can have full control? Would be lovely!

Thanks
Best regards
Johan

Dan Lynch

When you send a subscribe command, you get the current state sent back to you. When your device boots, just send subscribe commands for the stuff you want to sync.

Dan

jstrom

Hi Dan!

Hm, subscribe command? I haven't read anything about that. Is there some other documentation besides the Soundweb Serial SDK (http://www.bssaudio.com/software.php?software=Soundweb+Serial+Interface+Kit) that I have missed?

Thanks!

Dan Lynch

Sorry. I wasn't paying attention and was mixing up Soundweb London and original Soundweb. Since you're talking about original Soundweb, you're out of luck. The requeststring and requestvalue functions were never implemented.

Sorry for the confusion.

Dan

jstrom

Ah, I see.
How about documentation on the \"front port\" serial protocol which Soundweb Designer uses? That one seems to be able to read the values, any chance of getting hands on docs for it?

Dan Lynch

Nope.

Dan