Hi!

SSDIRECT connection to the serial sensor port is a great thing. One can use it to communicate with the sensor direct and indirect over the DT80. This is a function of great use!

However, I figured out some problems with devices at the serial port. It seems that DT80 transmit the data in SSDIRCT mode line wise with a termination character (can be set in the command).

That works fine with a terminal like communication with the sensor. But a lot of sensors or devices use binary transmissions for configuration. Unfortunately this is not possible with the SSDIRECT mode.

It would be better if the DT80 behaves completely transparent (byte wise) until the escape sequence (ENDSSDIRECT) occurs. Is there a particular reason why you programmed this in that way?

Regards,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

The SSDIRCT mode was only ever intended to work with ASCII serial devices. To make it handle binary as well will not be as simple task. I will pass your comments on to our engineering team.

Thanks for the feed back.

Cheers,
Roger