Nov 4th, 2025, 11:52am
Home Home  Search Search  Members Members  Login Login  Register Register
Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register.
FabulaTech Forum General Questions General Questions and Suggestions (Moderators: Andrew, Sergey_Jarovski, Tim_GaliullinFT) USB RS232 virtual com port driv Previous topic | Next topic
Pages: 1  Reply Reply  Notify of replies Notify of replies  Print Print
   Author  Topic: USB RS232 virtual com port driv  (Read 9421 times)
PhillipT
FabulaTech Forum Newbie
*

View Profile         
Posts: 2
USB RS232 virtual com port driv
on: Sep 10th, 2009, 12:51am 		Quote Quote  Modify Modify
hi,
 
I am looking for a USB RS232 virtual com port driver to enable a USB device  (GPS)connected to a PC to be queried as a standard serial port
 
Which of the current FabulaTech products would be best to use for this application?
 
many thanks
 
Phillip
IP Logged
Alex_Webster
FabulaTech Forum Senior Member
****

View Profile   WWW   Email       
Gender: male Posts: 257
Re: USB RS232 virtual com port driv
Reply #1 on: Sep 10th, 2009, 1:30am 		Quote Quote  Modify Modify
on Sep 10th, 2009, 12:51am, PhillipT wrote:
hi,
 
I am looking for a USB RS232 virtual com port driver to enable a USB device  (GPS)connected to a PC to be queried as a standard serial port

 
What kind of the device is this? As far as I understand you have a GPS which is USB device. But your OS system detects is as COM device (when you plug this GPS into USB port virtual com port is created, right?). And you need to access this very Device (virtual com port) from a remote location, right?  
 
Please describe in detail what you are trying to do.
 
Thanks.
IP Logged
PhillipT
FabulaTech Forum Newbie
*

View Profile         
Posts: 2
Re: USB RS232 virtual com port driv
Reply #2 on: Sep 10th, 2009, 1:50am 		Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Hi Alex
 
thanks for the quick reply.
 
I am using Windows XP and Windows 7.
 
I have a CDC/ACM compliant GPS device which provides USB and com access.
I have code which queries the GPS via the RS232 serial port.
We are porting our app to new hardware and the new target PC's we are itnegrating with only have USB connections.
 
I need to be able to query the device over a USB connection as if it was connected to a serial port and I am looking for a generic CDC/ACM device driver that provides a serial port emulation on Windows operating systems by implementing a serial link emulation protocol on USB.
 
Hopefully  my question is a little clearer now.  
 
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
thanks
 
Phillip
IP Logged
Alex_Webster
FabulaTech Forum Senior Member
****

View Profile   WWW   Email       
Gender: male Posts: 257
Re: USB RS232 virtual com port driv
Reply #3 on: Sep 10th, 2009, 2:34am 		Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Yes thanks, it's clearer now Smiley  
 
But doesn't this very device when pugged into USB port create a virtual com port
like any other GPS device?  
 
As far as I understand you need to work with your device locally. Or do you need to access this very device from the remote location? I understand that you need to query the device but could you please describe the whole project?
 
And could you please specify the model of the device? Does it create virtual com port when you plug it into USB port?
 
Meanwhile you can check our Network Serial Port Kit:
http://www.fabulatech.com/network-serial-port-kit.html
 
It shares com ports and connects them from any remote location.
 
IP Logged
Pages: 1  Reply Reply  Notify of replies Notify of replies  Print Print

Previous topic | Next topic