[time-nuts] Lady Heather Update

[John Miles]

I'm trying to bring the Win32 version up to date with the graphical version,
but am dealing with a bug that apparently puts the Thunderbolt into some
kind of mode where it returns junk data over the serial line.  My Win32
build runs for a minute or so, draws some graphs that don't make sense, and
then I have to go into TBoltMon.exe and do a warm reset to make it resume
sending normal serial updates.

Is this basically what the DOS version normally looks like (attached),
obvious errors aside?

-- john, KE5FX



> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Magnus Danielson
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:18 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Update
>
>
> Mark Sims skrev:
> > Hello again Magnus,
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> > If the program is started up and it is not seeing the Tbolt on the COM
> > port you should see the "Log: OFF" indicator,  two lines of text that
> > are the plot area header,  and the plot axes/grid.  Pressing  the
> > SPACE bar should bring up a help screen in place of the plot grid.
> > If all that is working, the problem is probably in the COM port.
> > It wants the tbolt to be at factory com settings (9600,N,8,1)
>
> That was not the problem. It failed with a big windows thing saying it
> would not find the COM1 and then the programmed died.
>
> > The program talks to the COM port UART directly.  It probably won't
> > work with a USB converter.  The default is COM1,  the /2 command line
> > option should select COM2 (but I don't have a machine here with two
> > serial ports to test it...  the com port code was lifted from another
> > program that did work with COM2).
>
> The trouble here was that COM1 was "felt" by the OS to be used for
> something else. Very strange. I had to force COM2 to become COM1 to
> solve it. /2 did not help as it actually was COM1 in hardware.
>
> > There are several command line options.  use /? to see them.
>
> I found them by tossing random commands at it... fairly quickly.
>
> My remaining problem is to get it to run in graphical mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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