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Unable to connect / receive through PLX-DAQ on Excel - worked on Win 8, not Windows 10

maurycyszpakmaurycyszpak Posts: 1
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Hi,

I did some searching on the forum and people were mainly reporting that all their software kept on working after migrating to Win 10. I am working as a VBA developer for a guy who connects a spectroradiometer to his PC and uses PLX-DAQ to transport the data captured by his Teensy strip to Excel. It worked on Windows 7 and 8 but first time he connected it to Windows 10 he gets the default connection error - StampDAQ could not connect. Please check port settings.

We checked it's the correct COM port - can you give me any initial guidance as how to debug this issue - or maybe you already know the solution? As I said I mainly work in VBA but I used to work in C 15 years ago, so I am able to make some small corrections on the Teensy program itself.

If I posted in the wrong category (does PLX-DAQ fall under BASIC Stamp?) please let me know

Thanks
Morris

Comments

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I think you should check that the connection to the comport is working first.

    I presume there is still a terminal program like Hyper Terminal that can be used to talk directly to a comport on Windows 10. Just check that you can talk to a propeller or whatever over a serial connection.

    Or perhaps try programming a Propeller using the PropTool.

    I notice PLX-DAQ is old and no longer supported. So you may be out of luck if it does not work on Win 10. Always a danger with closed source systems.

  • arduinoidarduinoid Posts: 1
    I have a similar problem... Only, in my case, I am not able to run it on Excel 2007 on Windows 8, itself.

    Please let me know once you have a solution... will be helpful !
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    arduinoid wrote: »
    I have a similar problem... Only, in my case, I am not able to run it on Excel 2007 on Windows 8, itself.

    Please let me know once you have a solution... will be helpful !

    Try Excel 2003. Anything newer does not seem to work any more.

    This software is no longer supported by Parallax.

  • JedimasterJedimaster Posts: 1
    Hi, I am running windows 10 and office 2007 version of excel. PLX-DAC will connect to my Arduino Uno if I hold down the Uno reset button while connecting. All looks good but no data in cells. R flashs in unison with uno output... and the uno resets with connecting but still no data. BUGGER.
    Any help appreciated.
    Cheers
    Jed
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2016-09-06 21:30
    See above post.
    Try Excel 2003. Anything newer does not seem to work any more.

  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    There are known issues with Windows 10 and the PLX-DAQ software. This and the changes in newer versions of Excel is why the software is no longer supported.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Time to roll your sleeves up and implement the serial protocol in Python or the language of your choice. Save the data to a MySQL database, display in a web browser.
  • rosco_pcrosco_pc Posts: 464
    Or even just handle it in vba: http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/commio.aspx
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    VBA will suffer form the same obsolescence issues. An open source language solution would be useful to more people.
  • rosco_pcrosco_pc Posts: 464
    I know, use python myself, but OP is a vba developer :smile:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Well, so?

    Languages, operating systems, etc,come and go. I'm sure many here have worked on many systems.

    At some point one starts to think it's a better idea to invest ones time. effort and money, into something with a future. Especially if it's opensource and perhaps of use to others with whatever platform they have.

    Perhaps now is time maurycyszpak sees the light. :)
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