Connecting Stamp to Palm Pilot
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Hey All,
Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm pilot. I
basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
Thanks in advance
Jason
Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm pilot. I
basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
Thanks in advance
Jason
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When I spent two weeks straight looking for ways to interface a homade sonar
device to a macintosh laptop with usb ports only, I discovered that there are
alot of temperature data aquisition systems. Some that I saw incorporate the
palm. Some were more commercial than others, but some had detailed
information. Try a google.com search on "data aquisition" "thermometer"
"palm".
Sorry I could not be of more help. I probably skimmed over a thousand pages
of Smile data those two weeks and my brain is still fried. What you are
looking for is out there.
Use Dallas 1-Wire concept.
Regards
Johnny B
is run a terminal program on the
palm and use the serial cable for connectioins (my palm has a hotsync cable
thatplugs into the palm and has a 9
pin serial connector on the end) You coud use the stamp to read your
tempreature sensor and output it in serial
format and read it on the palm. palm terminal programs are easy to find. try
http://software.palm.com/ for terminal programs
"Jason W. Day" wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm pilot. I
> basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jason
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My favorite Palm terminal program is "Online" from
<http://www.markspace.com /online.html>
With that you can immediately start looking at your Stamp output on
the Palm screen. If you want to do something more customized, look
into BASIC programming.
<http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/> $149 IDE
<http://www.rahul.net/rhn/hotpaw/> $19 shareware
-- regards,
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>I use a Palm (one of the originals) to talk to equipment around
>here. All i do is run a terminal program on the
>palm and use the serial cable for connectioins (my palm has a
>hotsync cable thatplugs into the palm and has a 9
>pin serial connector on the end) You coud use the stamp to read
>your tempreature sensor and output it in serial
>format and read it on the palm. palm terminal programs are easy to find. try
>http://software.palm.com/ for terminal programs
>
>
>"Jason W. Day" wrote:
> Hey All,
> >Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm pilot. I
> > basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
> >Thanks in advance
> > Jason
I uploaded an application to the Files area that lets you look at the
debug output of the Stamp on a Palm device. It also has some basic
info about how to connect the Palm to the Stamp.
Let me know if it works for you, and what Palm device that you are
running it on. It is freeware.
Best regards,
peter
Original Message
From: "Jason W. Day" <j_w_day@y...>
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:50 pm
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Connecting Stamp to Palm Pilot
> Hey All,
>
> Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm
> pilot. I
> basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jason
>
>
>
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> Subject and Body of the message will be ignored.
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>
>
commands. As to some of the other replys: I have a Palm Vx, I plan on
connecting temperature, pressure, and a few other things.
If anyone has any code for the NSBasic (related to the Serin and
out), it would be helpful.
Thanks Guys!
--- In basicstamps@y..., Tracy Allen <tracy@e...> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> My favorite Palm terminal program is "Online" from
> <http://www.markspace.com /online.html>
> With that you can immediately start looking at your Stamp output on
> the Palm screen. If you want to do something more customized, look
> into BASIC programming.
> <http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/> $149 IDE
> <http://www.rahul.net/rhn/hotpaw/> $19 shareware
>
> -- regards,
> Tracy Allen
> electronically monitored ecosystems
> mailto:tracy@e...
> http://www.emesystems.com
>
>
> >I use a Palm (one of the originals) to talk to equipment around
> >here. All i do is run a terminal program on the
> >palm and use the serial cable for connectioins (my palm has a
> >hotsync cable thatplugs into the palm and has a 9
> >pin serial connector on the end) You coud use the stamp to read
> >your tempreature sensor and output it in serial
> >format and read it on the palm. palm terminal programs are easy to
find. try
> >http://software.palm.com/ for terminal programs
> >
> >
> >"Jason W. Day" wrote:
> > Hey All,
> > >Anyone have any information on connecting the stamp to a palm
pilot. I
> > > basically want to read temperatures on my palm.
> > >Thanks in advance
> > > Jason
>commands. As to some of the other replys: I have a Palm Vx, I plan on
>connecting temperature, pressure, and a few other things.
>
>If anyone has any code for the NSBasic (related to the Serin and
>out), it would be helpful.
>
>Thanks Guys!
>
Hi again Jason,
It is kind of hard to convey nsbasic code in an email message,
because the code is spread out in association with different objects.
But here is a lesson 1. Let's say you simply want to send some text
data from the Stamp to the Palm and have it appear in a field. First
note: the Palm uses chr(10) (line feed) to move from line to line,
not chr(13) (carriage return). So assume you take care of that in
the Stamp. That is, don't send data using the Stamp DEBUG command,
which uses CR without an LF. It takes a little more programming on
the Palm to convert CRs into LFs for display--but that is lesson 2!
(BTW, nsBASIC is an IDE that runs on a windows PC. You test your
program on the Palm emulator on the windows desktop, or you can
hotsync it onto the actual Palm.)
Start a new project, and it will have startup code, termination code,
and one form with a scrolling field to display data received over the
serial port from the Stamp.
in the Startup code:
global serflg as integer ' a flag for the state of the serial port
' you _must_ keep track of this
in the Termination code:
if serflg=1 then
err=serialclose() ' if open, close the port before exiting
end if
Create one form, and on it put a field. You create a field by
selecting the field object in the tool bar and then by dragging on
the IDE screen. Make the field fill the screen. The IDE will assign
a number to the field. In the field properties on the right pane of
the IDE you can give the field a name, say "serialdata". Also, make
it a scrolling field, and dynamic (meaning it can wrap and change
size), and make the maximum number of characters a very large number,
like 30000.
Right click on the form to bring up the "After" code, which will
execute after the form has displayed the field. Type there something
like the following:
dim mydata as string ' to hold data from the serial port
dim err as integer
if serflg=0 then
err=serialopen(0,9600) ' if not already open, open at 9600 baud
end if
Do
if syseventavailable()=1 then exit do ' see below
err=serialreceive(mydata,100,.05) ' receive a bunch of characters
' up to 100 (the palm buffers
' lots of characters behind the
' scenes. Only wait .05 second
' though and then take whatever
' characters have come in.
serialdata.text=serialdata.text+mydata ' append new text to the field text
' remember: chr(10) ends lines!
loop ' forever
end sub ' all subs end with this
(Caveat--I was typing the above code directly into the email--question it!)
The way events happen on the Palm is kind of tricky, and the program
does not allow events to interrupt in the middle of a loop or
subroutine. The syseventavailable() function allows the code to exit
gracefully if you press one of the other application keys. At that
point, the termination code runs (to close the serial port) and the
new application runs.
There are a lot of details. You probably want to parse your data to
display the different variables neatly in three different fields?
The manual and example programs are, shall we say, sketchy and
exasperating. The nsbasic-palm egroup is very helpful, and a
fabulous book by Mike Verive has just come out on Palm programming
with nsbasic.
I hope that helps you get started.
-- best regards
Tracy Allen
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mailto:tracy@e...
what is the name of the application? Thanks!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/basicstamps/files/
There is a zip file called "DeBug" that has the application and a text
file.
Let me know if it works for you, and what PalmOS version and hardware
(Palm vs Handspring, etc) you use it on. I have been tinkering with it
to allow captured data to be imported into the notepad, but haven't
quite finished it yet.
Good luck,
peter
Original Message
From: azeasi@a...
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:35 am
Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Connecting Stamp to Palm Pilot
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