LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Interfacing with Nortek Aquadopp IM6000

Just casting a line out there...

Has anyone out there happened to interface a linux board with a Nortek Aquadopp? I'm beginning work on doing so but was hoping if someone has already beat me to it I could get some pointers.

Info on the Aquadopp can be found here: Aquadopp Mine is the im6000 (the im300 page had pretty pictures)

We currently have this SeaBird SBE 37-IMP MicroCAT interfaced with the board. The board is some Triton 3 board running OpenEmbedded 4.0 (not to be confused with the Tritons you will find running a google search).

As seen on the webpage and in the manual, the SeaBird and Aquadopp are both tethered to metal cable (a braided metal cable like so...) running through what is basically a transformer core on each device. Another "transformer core," the "inductive modem," is on one end of the metal cable. "Modem" is wired to a serial port on board (ttyS4).

The person working on this before me devised a way, through shell and C scripts, to talk and extract data from the SeaBird. Looks like the Aquadopp has its own terminal emulator program in which you send it commands (a combination of HEX and its own text-based commands).

So if someone has already gotten into this and wants to share their findings with my lazy self, that would be awesome. If anyone wants to get into this with me, I can send some pdf's your way--the full documentation on this device (as the Nortek website seems like they don't freely give out these manuals--you have to register and login on there site and a bunch of BS...).

Otherwise, I will jump into this project face first and give updates on my post for anyone who cares or might need the info in the future.

Thanks
-tim