Re: [M100] RS-232 to bluetooth

I’ve had good luck with the IOGEAR GBC232A ( https://www.iogear.com/product/GBC232A ) between the M100 and mComm Python on a Mid-2012 MacBookPro 9,1 i7 running macOS 10.15.7 Catalina. The time out issue for me was with the mComm Android on a Motorola Mot

Re: [M100] BCR woes

Sweet got a project for this weekend! Thanks, Will On 11/1/22 2:59 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: I used my bench power supply, some jumpers, and a 33K pullup resistor on the wand output.  I used the M100 schematic as a guide on how to connect the wand.  There's only four pins used on the wand:  Power

Re: [M100] BCR woes

I used my bench power supply, some jumpers, and a 33K pullup resistor on the wand output. I used the M100 schematic as a guide on how to connect the wand. There's only four pins used on the wand: Power +5 (pin 9), detector output (pin 2), and ground (pins 5 and 7). I set the scope to single swe

Re: [M100] BCR woes

Hi Jerry, OK. When Willard first mentioned speed, as in go faster, as a potential issue, I was skeptical, but now it's starting to  sound reasonable :). But, now I wanna try the oscilloscope ( I love any excuse to get my Rigol and/or Salae out). So, tell me, how did you hook up stuff? Did you

Re: [M100] RS-232 to bluetooth

I've played with BT adapters and didn't really have any problems except for the handshaking issues discussed in another thread. As you note, there are basically two versions (aside from master/slave etc. issues): True RS232 that have a DE9 connector and plug riight into the M100 with a 25<>9 pin a

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

Sidenote: For wonks who want to check my numbers, the file was 16197 bytes long. For effective bps, I used 10 bits per byte because I don't recall exactly how all the stop bits and parity add up, but I know it is more than 8 bits. I did the timing by typing ?TIME$: LOAD... and then, once that was s

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

Good question. I know that 19,200 makes a substantial qualitative difference compared to 9600 when using TELCOM to connect to a UNIX shell. For loading BASIC programs, I don't know that it would make a difference as I usually just let it run and forget about it while it tokenizes.I only mentioned l

Re: [M100] BCR woes

I have the barcode reader and software. When I first started using it I had the exact same problem you did. None of the drivers and demo applications seemed to work. The wand LED is very dim on mine. The first thing I did was print out some barcodes from a Google search. There are some websites

[M100] RS-232 to bluetooth

Hello, I can connect my M100 to a Raspberry Pi, either through a USB-->RS232 adapter, or even on the GPIO bus with a suitable level shifter. I've always done with the 'larger' ones but I've been playing a Zero W, which doesn't have the GPIO soldered on and only 2 micro USB connectors, one of wh

Re: [M100] BCR woes

I don't know what you were scanning but the driver for this thing is ancient and cannot read the current bar code in use today. The manual for the BCR provides info about what it can read, the current bar code wasn't even a standard back then.      -Original Message- From: Wi

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

Maybe I should have said that XON/XOFF is hit-and-miss depending on the hardware instead of 'unreliable' ;-) . It's not always easy to know whether a particular setup will work or not; I've seen USB cables recommended that I couldn't get to work and, conversely, had no problems with others that

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:11 AM MikeS wrote: > Reliable maximum download speeds on the M100 without handshaking are > around: > BASIC: 600 bd to allow time to tokenize and store. > TERM: 2400 because of the slow LCD scrolling. > TEXT: 9600 since it does not display while loading. > That sounds