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Hi friends i am new this forum.I found this forum helping in clearing the doubts of many.I need a help from you friends.I am working on one project.As a part of the project i have to catch the sigals that are sent from the rs232 port like the (signals from UPS,etc)via c- program.so i need your help in doing that.Please help me out in this.Thank you.
Hi friends i am new this forum.I found this forum helping in clearing the doubts of many.I need a help from you friends.I am working on one project.As a part of the project i have to catch the sigals that are sent from the rs232 port like the (signals from UPS,etc)via c- program.so i need your help in doing that.Please help me out in this.Thank you.
A good starting point should be looking up the RS232 standard:
Hi ciphyre..
i thank you very much for the links the links that you gave.I also searched the wikipedia about this and got idea about the rs232 port and connection.could you sugget any sample c porgram (or in any other language) to read the siganls from the rs232 serial port.
Hi ciphyre..
i thank you very much for the links the links that you gave.I also searched the wikipedia about this and got idea about the rs232 port and connection.could you sugget any sample c porgram (or in any other language) to read the siganls from the rs232 serial port.
Have you used 'minicom'? Use minicom to communicate with your serial port (/dev/ttySx). Once this works for you, you can GOOGLE for a sample C program of which there are many, to work with your serial port :-)
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