I am working on a small project - an autopilot for my power boat. It has a Humminbird Solix for GPS, chart plotter, waypoints for autopilot and side scan sonar.Rather than going thru the work of setting up a serial port and trying to read the incoming NEMA 0183 data stream while doing other things, I thought it would be nice to have a program that already has an interface to the serial port and would create a file of the incoming data. Programs like PuTTY have logging abilities, but what I need more. Data from a NEMA talker typicaly comes in bursts once per second lasting 100ms in duration.
What I desire is a logging program that you could set a timeout on (a timeout shorter than the time between data burst). The program would capture a burst of data and write it to a file. My program would read the file and parse the data for the information desired.
So the question is, does anyone know of such a RS232 data logging program. I have done some searching and have not been able to find such a creature.
Kind regards,
David
What I desire is a logging program that you could set a timeout on (a timeout shorter than the time between data burst). The program would capture a burst of data and write it to a file. My program would read the file and parse the data for the information desired.
So the question is, does anyone know of such a RS232 data logging program. I have done some searching and have not been able to find such a creature.
Kind regards,
David
Statistics: Posted by DFansler — Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:44 am