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This is along the same lines as Nigel's suggestion
oopps sorry Nigel & Dr PepperIs that a different Nigel?, because I haven't posted here
I know you have a load of experience with micocontrollers so that is good news. Increasingly, I am finding that, even the most simple of functions, is best done with a microcontroller, either chip level but more often than not, board level.IHowever, I concur that the easiest way (in the light of no information about the computer been used, and that ports other than USB are rare these days) would be to use a Nano - or any other microcontroller of course, but a Nano is cheap and easy.
None of these address the central part of the question. How do you create a program or what program can you buy or download and install, that the Windows scheduler runs to create any of these signals.
A USB connection to an Arduino
The serial port DTR signal
Any parallel printer port data pin
WiFi app
...
None of these address the central part of the question. How do you create a program or what program can you buy or download and install, that the Windows scheduler runs to create any of these signals. With DOS and QuickBasic this was 10 lines of code that compiled to a standalone COM or EXE file that any scheduler could run. Nowadays, ???
ak
I am not interested in respect or any other emotions. Please stick to technical matters- your post makes no sense. It is just reaction. Try ti be objective. I am making a perfectly rational and sensible statement that writing a routine to control a port on a PC is trivial. Either you agree with that or you don't. So you have three options either agree disagree or be quiet.You know I respect your work, but that answer is so useless I can't believe you killed electrons to post it. And no, those electrons aren't converted to another form of energy. They are dead, gone, tango-upstart, lost to physical reality, never to spin again, all thanks to you. They are ex-electrons.
ak
You were right AK.Thank you all,
after some googling, i find the Windows CLI command:
mode comx rts={on|off|hs|tg}
that should set the RTS "Request to Send" control circuit, on, off, handshake or toggle.
The last two options are not well explained.
The command works only if the PC has a native serial port or also with (more common today) USB to serial adapter connected to a USB port of the PC ?
You were right when you said that the OP wanted to know how to do the software in his PC. And I was wrong in saying that I did not think that was the case.OK . . . . . about what?
Hi spec, AK has a more reliable crystal ball than you. Les.