Return-Path: Received: from rtp-iport-1.cisco.com ([64.102.122.148] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c1) with ESMTP id 740642 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:58 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.102.122.148; envelope-from=echristl@cisco.com Received: from rtp-core-2.cisco.com (64.102.124.13) by rtp-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2005 18:10:39 -0500 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="3.90,87,1107752400"; d="scan'208"; a="37115952:sNHT19320276" Received: from [172.18.179.151] (echristl-linux.cisco.com [172.18.179.151]) by rtp-core-2.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j1FMwBhF016535 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42127E83.7080001@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:11 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: FJO wideband O2, tree trimmers, and ignorant software question References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Russell Duffy wrote: > Porting is the art of handling all that stuff. The average software > geek is smart enough to run away from these sort of task in a screaming > panic (unless, he expects to be paid fairly well). > > Excellent explanation Ernest! Should be archived at howstuffworks.com. > > That's bad news, but maybe not fatal. My real question to FJO was not > to be able to run their analysis software on the Ipaq, but rather to > be able to use the Ipaq to capture the data for later display on the > PC. Maybe there's still hope for doing that, but it's still beyond my > abilities unless I can talk FJO into working that out. > > I originally wrote them about this because I wanted to use the > software if possible, but needed to be sure it would work before > spending $250 on the connectivity kit. Since they're now including > the kit free with any wideband controller kit, at least I'm not out > anything if I can't use it. > > Thanks, > Rusty (making oil pickup tube spacer) If it is just serial data, then there are standards that most people adhere to and it is a simple matter of dumping data to disk. Even if they won't provide you with a spec of the data stream, you can sometimes dump a bunch of it into a text editor and decipher what's what. A simple script can then look for the head of the data stream, then format it into a comma delimited list that any program should accept. If they want to be nasty and lock you down to their hardware/software solution, then they can require you to use special interfaces/cable and scramble the data so that you don't have a hope without handing them some dollars.