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I need to send some commands to a USB device.
I want a piece of freeware to do this.
Actually, I want two pieces.
First piece: some sort of simple GUI that will let me define the bytes and test my guess.
I'm not sure whether or not I want one byte, two, three, or 27 of them.
Second piece: the same thing, but no GUI, just something I can execute from a command line (actually, a LUA script will invoke the command with parameters written into a line like this...
os.execute()
I'm wondering if terminal by bray might fit the bill for the first piece.
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Good call, thanks.
That guy seems to have a similar goal.
I have a device on the other end of a USB cable.
It accepts commands; and possibly sends ACK and NAK signals back to me; I don't know at the moment. That's what I'm going to find out.
I went ahead and put Terminal by Bray on this machine to experiment and see what command does what action.
What I want is a command line [program/batfile/whatever] that will send Bytes X,Y,Z,etc. out to port "N" (at what speed, I don't know) and if it's USB, From what I vaguely remember, that almost becomes irrelevant; most times, anyway.
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I'm not sure if you read the thread Dave Auld gave you. You are thinking of your USB device as a simple comms port of some kind which it is not. It may implement a serial port as one of its interfaces but if it does then you communicate with that (after the device driver is installed) and not the USB device as such. For that you can use Putty or whatever. Otherwise as the link concludes you are out of luck unless you know about the interfaces it implements. Then you can cobble up a small program yourself.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
modified 3-Feb-14 19:32pm.
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We have a box.
It has a USB cable.
We plug it in.
I send bytes to that port.
Hmmm, you say putty ? Certainly worth trying.
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Sorry I didn't reply as promised, but your question was automatically deleted, because a bunch of members decided it wasn't understandable, despite the obvious dialog between the two of us yesterday. I have requested that the hamsters reinstate the question, but that can take a good amount of time.
Unfortunately, all your posts were attached to the same question, so I have no way to get in touch and either apologise for my late / nonexistent reply or continue from where we were.
So if you read this, reply here, and we'll work out some way that I can continue assisting you.
For everyone who abuse voted his question: Just because someone is a complete beginner and doesn't know what he is doing, does not mean that he doesn't need, or deserve help, and I do wish you would drop this "I don't like that so I'll vote it away" attitude in QA. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
End of rant.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: For everyone who abuse voted his question: Just because someone is a complete beginner and doesn't know what he is doing, does not mean that he doesn't need, or deserve help, and I do wish you would drop this "I don't like that so I'll vote it away" attitude in QA. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Didn't read the said question, but I am with you on this 
I sometimes feel like some blind retards with a happy trigger finger who cannot divide between beginners seeking for help and non-effort lazy arse idiots trying to get their (home)work done are around, hiding in disguise and secretly ruining technical discussions going on.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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OriginalGriff wrote: I do wish you would drop this "I don't like that so I'll vote it away" attitude
Seems to be a lot of that going around. Didn't used to be like that but now people seem to take offense too easily.
Give it a break. Not everyone thinks the same way you do. Not a bad thing. 
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To me it seems to have gotten a lot worse since the downvoting was removed.
I mean, FFS, even this message[^] was reported. First I was stumped, then I had to laugh, but now I'm just mostly sad. Sad that so many people totally lack the cojones to tell other people to the face their problem is. I mean apart from the obvious.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I mean, FFS, even this message[^] was reported.
The appropriate place to post something like that is in the Soapbox ... err, wait a second , you did.
I don't start a lot of discussions anymore because I seem to offend too many people. The god squad comes out and reports you until the message is removed and your account is shut down. So much for the free interchange of ideas. 
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QA sucks.
Other QA sites also suck.
I still blame the format.
people also suck, and I blame them as well
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Vacuum cleaners suck as well.
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I also blame vacuum cleaners.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Vacuum cleaners suck as well.
My wife won't...
...use the vacuum cleaner
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Obviously, you're married. 
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Is this message really intended for the member or is it more meant for the rest of us? I suspect something in between.
Anyway, there might be a better way to get the attention of the member. I checked the Sugs and Bugs forum to find the Question (using the link provided by ProgramFOX). That lead me to the member page and finally the User name of the member.
You see, I have a sneaky suspicion, that the "@ feature" Chris added, will send a notification to the member, saying he/she has been directly mentioned in a post. So let's see if @User-10534308 reacts to this.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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@somad Did you get a notification?
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Yes. Email and everything. I don't recall Mr. Maunder telling us about that when he released the feature, but I once received an email from a member I had reported in the Spam forum where I had linked to the profile in this way. In his reply I could see an email had been sent to him. @marcobertschi
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Some may getting unwanted emails.
@idiot- Just an example.
@sexygirls: Email me.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Hmmm...I received notifications for both of those.  [just kidding]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I am @somadright now.
Just kidding - I've seen the oppurtunity
I stop goofing around now, otherwise @Sean-Ewingtongets sent to me by @Chris-MaunderClean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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You rang? 
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Noooo, dammit. Go away. Or change that mankini. Nooo.
But since you are here anyways, how's the my last request going on?
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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First off, I never change my lucky 2011 mankini.
Secondly, I believe Mr. Maunder was travelling last week so I'll have to remind him next I catch him.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: I believe Mr. Maunder was travelling last week
Always on the run, the good man.
Sean Ewington wrote: I'll have to remind him next I catch him.
No big deal, I am a patient man. Mostly.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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