I dislike TSIP quite a bit. It's a disaster in my opinion if you are not intimately familiar already with the Trimble binary commands, and exists in a number of inconsistent and non-compatible dialects as far as I know. No way for a human to enter a simple command in a simple text terminal, you have to have everything translated by some application. I know the software folks like binary better than ASCII, because parsing binary commands can theoretically be done with less effort. I think effort == results.
There is SatStat, GPSCon, and Ulrich's great Z38xx control program for human readable SCPI commands besides the good old ASCII terminals. HP leads the way with GPIB/SCPI in my opinion. But it's like religion, everyone thinks theirs is the right one, and everyone else is on the wrong path. bye, Said In a message dated 6/26/2014 14:01:35 Pacific Daylight Time, hol...@hotmail.com writes: There are TSIP commands for doing all those things. It should be fairly easy to adapt them to control your hardware and whatever GPS receiver you are using. The nice thing about implementing a TSIP interface is being able to use existing programs like Tboltmon and Lady Heather (over 30,000 lines of code) to monitor and control it. Also NTP knows how to talk TSIP. ---------------- I am planning on the output of at least position, corrected phase error, DAC value, ambient temperature, and a few other things. I also see a need to read and write the PID gain and damping factors, but that may just have to be a custom tty interface. It may be that I need to have a pass-through mode to give direct access to the receiver for triggering site survey, etc. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.