Re^2: USB to serial "coupler"?

This is the wrong way around. I'm not going from a serial dongle to a USB port - I'm going from a USB dongle to an application that can ONLY read from serial ports.

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Re^3: USB to serial "coupler"? by TGI (Parson) on Jan 01, 2009 at 22:59 UTC
You didn't mention your OS, but if you are on Win32, com0com provides an easy way to pipe stuff through serial ports. It provides a pair of connected virtual serial ports. You'd still need to write a translator that can talk to the USB dongle. Your serial requiring legacy code would connect to one port. Your translator would connect to the other port. The translator would then talk to the USB dongle and perform any needed protocol conversions. TGI says moo	[reply]

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Re^3: USB to serial "coupler"?
by TGI (Parson) on Jan 01, 2009 at 22:59 UTC

You didn't mention your OS, but if you are on Win32, com0com provides an easy way to pipe stuff through serial ports. It provides a pair of connected virtual serial ports.

You'd still need to write a translator that can talk to the USB dongle.

Your serial requiring legacy code would connect to one port. Your translator would connect to the other port. The translator would then talk to the USB dongle and perform any needed protocol conversions.

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