Serial over Ethernet

[project_x]

I built my own software to take in a telnet session...lets you send serial commands.

I did this as I wanted my HTPC to be the interface to my TV...BUT I wanted my HAPC to be the point of command execution.

It's a pretty simple program.

--Dan

Dan,
Can you give a brief explanation of how you have implemented this? This makes a lot of sense, and I was wondering how you had done it.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[drozwood90]

I built my own software to take in a telnet session...lets you send serial commands.

I did this as I wanted my HTPC to be the interface to my TV...BUT I wanted my HAPC to be the point of command execution.

It's a pretty simple program.

--Dan

Dan,
Can you give a brief explanation of how you have implemented this? This makes a lot of sense, and I was wondering how you had done it.

Cheers,
Rob

well, I have a Home Theater PC (HTPC) next to my TV. My TV accepts Serial input. Instead of running a new cable from the server (the only location that can "read" my X10 RF...as well as the only location that serves the DVD Profiler XML generated webpages (it's a set of webpages that I extended that are located on the Homeseer Forums), I figured I can have the HTPC accept Serial data over Ethernet. Most solutions online required me to install a driver or something on my server. I understand why...they wanted me to talk serially to a virtual driver, that ported everything to the HTPC, then ported it back to RS-232.

I did not need this...as well as I don't like to install ANYTHING on the server. It's working as it is...so I don't want to dink with it!

Anywhoo...I was poking around the Homeseer Forum...someone had posted .Net code that created a telnet session for Homeseer.

So, I took an example ethernet program that I found online (VB6)...and added the serial port driver capabilities. Now you open the program, it will open COM1, and the port that's specified.

Anything that is passed to this ethernet port, will be buffered and sent to the serial port. Anything that is received from the serial port is buffered and sent to the Ethernet port.

Works quite well!

--Dan