Repetitive sending commands with programmed interval.

[Kabron287]

Hello, very appreciate for your program. Could you add some little feature: repetitive sending commands with programmed interval.

I try to describe why. There are a family of chinese USB testers by Kotomi or ChargerLAB which have ability to send data to PC. Native SW is uncomfortable for me and I have to make a trick to use the testers with your SW. I use splitted COM ports to periodically send starting message for tester SW from one program and receive the answer in your program. That is why it'll be very useful to have it all in one place. The intervals interesting for me are: 10s, 1s, 100ms, 50ms, 20ms, 10ms, but of course it may be setted numerically to any value. Thanks in advace, Vladimir

P.S. One issue: COM port# does not restored from savings.

[hyOzd]

Hi @Kabron287 , sorry for late response. I've been very busy in the last couple weeks. I remember your message in hackaday.io : )

I will consider adding this feature, it sounds useful. But since it's kinda specific and you already have a workaround going (I do the same by the way) I won't prioritize it.

Can you please write a more detailed issue about the other problem you mentioned. Preferably in bitbucket.

[Kabron287]

Hello, Hasan I'm not quite familiar with the bitbucket engine to create a separate issue, so I try to answer here. I went the following steps:

1st variant I use moxa PComm Terminal Emulator(https://www.moxa.com/news_events/PComm_Lite_Tests_TCP_Client.htm), because it has the ability to send repetive ASCI/HEX patterns at predefined interval. And Virtual Serial Ports Emulator(VSPE from eterlogic.com. Suppose, the device, we need to observe has COM25. With the VSPE I create a splitted virtual port COM5<-->COM25. Then I connect to COM5 from Serialplot and from PComm and start to send from PComm ASCII pattern "Get Meter Data" - it is the command for tester to send 5 floats in binary format. Because splitted ports, Serialplot could receive the device answer and plot it. 2d variant I Instead of PComm I wrote small VB program to send the only pattern.

But it is still uncomfortable to launch 2 additional programs.

I hope, I described enougth clear.

Thanks in advance, Vladimir

Hi @Kabron287 , sorry for late response. I've been very busy in the last couple weeks. I remember your message in hackaday.io : )

I will consider adding this feature, it sounds useful. But since it's kinda specific and you already have a workaround going (I do the same by the way) I won't prioritize it.

Can you please write a more detailed issue about the other problem you mentioned. Preferably in bitbucket.

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[hyOzd]

Oh I already got it. I meant you to describe this further:

P.S. One issue: COM port# does not restored from savings.

[Kabron287]

Oh I already got it. I meant you to describe this further:

P.S.

One issue:

COM port# does not restored from savings.

— You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. Prot# does not displayed correctly in the port selection after loading settings, although actually after Open, connection occured via correct port.

[Maxwell3e8]

It would indeed be useful to have a way to send a command repeatedly at fixed intervals. I've needed it a few times and had to switch to other terminal programs (for example Terminal.exe or Termite), which don't allow plotting.

Thanks again for writing and updating this great program.