Perl client released

Today I updated the perl client with all the features and options the Win32 client has.

I badly need an SI 6 card to see how the raw binary data coming from the serial port can be cracked.

Win32 client released

Thanks to MSVC++ Express I was able to write a reliable Win32 client, si_reader.exe with the following features:

- Read data from serial port ( serial main station or USB station with USB-Serial bridge driver for Win32 )
- Alternatively read data from input file created by client
- Save data to file (later to be used by client to send data to FreePunch server)
- Send data to FreePunch server

Linux kernel support for BSM7-D-USB

Just realized yesterday, that recent kernel versions (2.6.24.x) support BSM7-D-USB main stations. It took a while to update the kernel, mainly following the instructions on this page, but it was worth waiting:

The USB main station immediately showed up as /dev/ttyUSB0 and was able to use the perl script posted earier to get the serial data. Note that the USB station was put is Autosend mode. I also set the baud rate to 4800 using the SiConfig Win32 application, but surprisingly the speed was 38400 regardless. Make sure speed is set to 38400 in the script below.

=>perl si_reader.pl /dev/ttyUSB0 
Perl version: 5.008008
OS   version: linux
Loading Unix modules

opened serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 as /dev/ttyUSB0
Len: 187
023110053f561000100140a410021000100010001000100010001000100010006540a4eeeeeeee100556eeee281002e6
000eeee1000eeee1000eeee1000eeee1000eeee10001000eeee1000eeee1000eeee1000eeee1000eeee10001000eeee1

How cool is that, now this really settles the USB driver part and time to start on the web application.