Serial Port Probing

[scooper750]

Wanted to run something by you guys that I ran into using ControlCal last night. Great software by the away :)
Anyway is there a way ControlCal can scan the PC to see what serial ports are available. I noticed for serial port configuration the dropdown allowed for com port 1 thru 9. Anyway i've got a 4 port serial switch that was assigned ports 10 - 14 by the system. I was unable to get controlcal to recognize those ports since it only seems to support up to COM9. I finally had to use my usb - serial adapter that is normally assigned com6 on my PC then I connected my signal generator to the 4 port serial switch and all was fine. I can get around the issue, but would be a nice to have. Anyway, love the software. Had great results with it last night. I had a couple glitches at first whereby it didn't think the connected display was a 9G, but retried a couple times and it finally took. Now I can't wait to get my hands on another 9G Elite.

[Turbe]

:oops:I knew this day would come.. :devil:

Yes, it's on my list to expand the Port range and/or add auto-scan.. it's just not on the priority list.. :(

You can request features by clicking here:

http://www.controlcal.com/forum/projectpost.php?do=addissue&projectid=1&issuetypeid=feature

:thumbup:

I had a couple glitches at first whereby it didn't think the connected display was a 9G, but retried a couple times and it finally took.

Did you start with the Display in Standby and use the POWER ON Button in the Display Profile? If so, this could have been some communication glitch/error.. but unless communications is prep'ed without errors, the safety mechanisms kick in... :D

[scooper750]

I don't seem to have permission to the page to log feature requests

[Turbe]

hmmm...can you do it from this link?

http://www.controlcal.com/forum/project.php?projectid=1

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[scooper750]

Not at all. Getting this error:

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