How to trigger Comfort response automatically from PC?

[dubourg]

Hi

I use my PC for environmental monitoring and I would like the PC to be able to trigger Comfort responses based on specific events happening.

What methods can I use for the PC to automatically trigger Comfort responses?

Many thanks

[dubourg]

I have my PC permanently connected to Comfort using the RS232 UCM if that helps?

[ident]

You can write a script or program to send commands to Comfort using the UCM
The Comfort serial protocol can be downloaded from https://www.cytech.biz/serial_interface_protocol.html

The command R!LLHH can be used to execute any Response in Comfort where LL is the least significant Hexadecimal byte and HH is the most significant hexadecimal byte of the Response number HHLL. Maximum response number is 1024 or 400Hex

eg R!0001 means execute response 0100H or Response 256

[dubourg]

Thanks that is very helpful and I have successfully managed to trigger a response using the Hyperterminal sofware bundled with Windows.

Can anyone recommend a freeware terminal emulator with simple scripting language so that I can write an executable macro to trigger a comfort response?

Thanks

[ident]

\"Terminal\" has scripting features but have not tried it

http://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/

[dubourg]

Thanks looks good and I will give it a try!

[juwi_uk]

..or in my next version of the ComfortClient you can write a plugin that processes this data in some way and sends to comfort. All using my new plugin Framework.

Stay tuned!

Julian

[dubourg]

even better, thanks1