I have a Windows 10 application that reads GPS data, but only from a serial port.
I don't want to use a hardwired cable (just not possible).
So, I have built a device that outputs GPS data (ASCII) as a UDP broadcast. (Simple Arduino project.)
A company known as PCMicro sells something called TCP-COM that will listen to a particular UDP port and send what it hears to a virtual serial port (that it creates).
Sadly, I simply cannot afford the price of this software. But the demo does convince me that this is possible.
Can ScriptCommunicator be used .. somehow .. to do this, that is, create a virtual serial port (VCP) and send data from a UDP port it's listening on to that VCP?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Alan
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I have a Windows 10 application that reads GPS data, but only from a serial port.
I don't want to use a hardwired cable (just not possible).
So, I have built a device that outputs GPS data (ASCII) as a UDP broadcast. (Simple Arduino project.)
A company known as PCMicro sells something called TCP-COM that will listen to a particular UDP port and send what it hears to a virtual serial port (that it creates).
Sadly, I simply cannot afford the price of this software. But the demo does convince me that this is possible.
Can ScriptCommunicator be used .. somehow .. to do this, that is, create a virtual serial port (VCP) and send data from a UDP port it's listening on to that VCP?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Alan
Hi Alan,
this Script Communicator script can send data from udp to a serial port https://sourceforge.net/projects/routeserialtcpudp/.
But it cannot create a virtual serial port. Maybe this can help:
https://www.virtual-serial-port.org/articles/top-6-virtual-com-port-apps/
Regards,
Stefan
Last edit: Stefan Zieker 2019-04-10