hippy
Ex-Staff (retired)
I'm currently controlling a PICAXE in a friend's house some way away by connecting my PC to a Virtual Serial Port which routes over the internet to a TCP/IP Server on their PC which then connects through physical serial ports to the PICAXE.
This works fine for run-time serial data transfers, but the VSP only transmits raw ASCII. I've hacked around this using the TCP/IP Connection Request to force the PICAXE to Reset and I can download code from the Programming Editor on my PC.
The problem is that the Programming Editor opens the Port and keeps it open. It needs closing or a different port selecting to allow further downloads.
Is it possible to make the Programming Editor close the serial port after downloading and open it just prior to a new download ?
This works fine for run-time serial data transfers, but the VSP only transmits raw ASCII. I've hacked around this using the TCP/IP Connection Request to force the PICAXE to Reset and I can download code from the Programming Editor on my PC.
The problem is that the Programming Editor opens the Port and keeps it open. It needs closing or a different port selecting to allow further downloads.
Is it possible to make the Programming Editor close the serial port after downloading and open it just prior to a new download ?