Translating RS232 return Codes

snootypoo

Hi,

When sending query request to3rd Party Devices via rs232 e.g. a Projector.

The projector will send back a string code to advise of the request status (e.g. querying the current input in use) the response string of the projector annot be edited.

Is there a fucntion in London to translate the response string to a control string that London understands to say trigger a status indicator?

Or will I have to use another device to receive responses and translate to London strings?

Cheers

Simon

HARMAN_Jerome_King

Soundweb cannot interpret incoming messages from the Serial or Ethernet port. It will only interpret incoming London DI messages.

snootypoo

All righty, $20 Arduino Board Action it is for translations. This Arduino stuff is really handy, especially for automation.

J.Luszczek

How would you implement an Arduino in this setup?

Blu talks to Arduino by IP address, Arduino translates to RS232 to projector, then interprets RS232 confirmations and sends those back to Blu over IP?

It seems that a basic Crestron room controller would be a better choice as it has a lot of the work already done for you in the software.

Now that Harman acquired AMX, hopefully that functionality will be incorporated right in the native software, and hopefully soon because the native Blu controllers are very limited.

snootypoo

For $20 and 2minutes and 5 lines of code you can get an Arduino Board to pass all serial communication from an input serial port to an output serial port e.g. Blu100 ---Rs232 ---- Arduino board ----rs232 ---- projector.


For an extra 20min of time and 7 lines of code you can translate an rs232 response to a Blu100 string to light up a button.


Or you can spend $1000 on a creston solution or AMX... Arduino People!!! look it up, if an Arduino $20 board can do this, then why dont they implement this into Blu products