HI Jan, I am currently running a raspberry pi with laddieAlpha, and it is working well. Why do you want to use Desklink? In my case, Laddiealpha is listening to a TCP port however, not serial.
Certainly it could use the /dev/ttyS0 port if you wanted to. John H is the expert here. ..Steve On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Jan-80 <ja...@scarlet.be> wrote: > Hello, > > A happy New Year 2016 to all of you. > > I would like to use my old Raspberry Pi - an early Model B with only 256 > MB RAM - as a TPDD replacement. It would also allow anyone with any type of > old Raspberry Pi to do so. I am sure that, with the presentation of the > Pi2, a lot of hobbyists are going to sell their first-generation Pi's and > they can be picked up really cheap. > > Software: there have been 2 ways reported on this list on getting a TPDD > emulator to work on the R.Pi. A third one was never mentioned, but might be > possible also. Correct me if I'm wrong > 1. re-compiling Desklink from the original source for the Raspbian > environment. > 2. running the Windows.NET based version of Desklink in the > .NET-compatible environment of the R.Pi. (sorry, forgot the name) > 3. is it possible to run a Desklink in DOS-emulated environment? (Just an > idea of mine...) > > Hardware: come to think of it, some hardware stuff must also be considered. > 4. Serial link simple: a USB-to-serial adapter does the trick. I have one, > but don't know if it will work. How do I test this? > 5. Isn't it possible to use the I/O pins from the R.Pi as a serial port? > Does the TPDD need the control lines? > 6. If you use the R.Pi as a TPDD, you're likely to turn it off an on as > one. But the R.Pi is a computer, and you could ruin the filesystem by doing > so. Isn't it better to use a hardware on/off button instead of simply > pulling the plug? Like this one: > > http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2013/01/Adding-an-On-Off-switch-to-your-Raspberry-Pi > > > Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus Jan-80 > >
