Serial-Ethernet converter

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Hooter

Senior Member
Hi all - I have purchased some Sonmicro SME-291 serial to ethernet converters - $US35 each.
http://www.sonmicro.com/en/downloads/Ethernet/sme_um_ds.pdf
I have these working over my local LAN using the UDP Data Terminal program supplied - http://www.sonmicro.com/en/downloads/Ethernet/UDP_DT.zip
- sending commands to operate relays and to return temperature readings from DS18b20's - all connected to a 40X2 .
I would like to make a more Picaxe appropriate and user friendly gui to send the UDP information. Could someone out there please point me in some direction - VB or whatever is out there - which may help.
Cheers
Hooter
 
hippy

hippy

Technical Support
Staff member
Microsoft's Visual Basic 2008 Express has become a de facto choice for many programmers because it's free to download and use and a very capable and credible programming language. Because of its widespread use there's lots of help on the Web and it's backed by Microsoft's documentation. VB 2008 Express will certainly support TCP, UDP and serial comms.

There are other free and paid for programming languages, many of them Basic variants. I'm sure people will be along shortly to list their favourites.
 
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rbright

Member
RobotBasic for UDP Commands etc

I'm a licensed user of Liberty Basic & it's lot more user friendly than VB Express but recently I discovered Robot Basic which looks ideal for hardware interfacing especially over the web with instructions like UDP Sockets & TCP functions.
Robot Basic is a freeby available at http://www.robotbasic.org/
 
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Hooter

Senior Member
Thanks for the responses chaps. I have had a tinker with those programs and will spend a bit more time with them.
rbright - I have had a look at robotbasic prior to getting these modules and had missed the fact there was a demo UDP program. I will try modifying that first I think.
Thanks again.
Hooter
 
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