You might be sending the SET command before the BPD has time to wake up and respond. It will return a ‘#’ when it wakes up and switches to CLI mode.
Jeff Birt From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Georg Käter Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 12:59 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: [M100] BackPack - read data from CLI Hello together, I tried to read "settings" from a BackPack+ with the following, but w/o success 10 REM read settings from BackPack/BackPack+ 20 REM set variables 21 MAXFILES=2:DEFSTR A-K 22 CP="COM:98N1ENN" 30 REM open COM: for I/O 31 OPEN CP FOR OUTPUT AS 1 32 OPEN CP FOR INPUT AS 2 40 REM turn-on CLI mode 41 PRINT#1,STRING$(4,13) 50 REM send "set" command to BackPack/BackPack+ 51 PRINT#1,"set";CHR$(13) 60 REM read data from BackPack (set returns 9? values) 61 INPUT#2,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I 70 REM show "settings" 71 PRINT A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I 80 REM turn-off CLI mode 81 PRINT#1,"bye" 99 END What is wrong in the above? Any idea? btw this works: 10 REM read data from BackPack/BackPack+ 20 REM set variables 21 MAXFILES=2:DEFSTR A-K 22 CP="COM:98N1ENN" 30 REM open COM: for I/O 31 OPEN CP FOR OUTPUT AS 1 32 OPEN CP FOR INPUT AS 2 40 REM read from BackPack/BackPack+ (Date=A, Time=B, Day=C) 41 PRINT#1,"FF";chr$(7);chr$(13) 42 INPUT#2,A,B,C 50 REM print values 51 PRINT A,B,C 99 END Thanks for your help
