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cucujiji
 Post subject: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:09 am 
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Hi!

I try to send some information from my botboarduino to my SSC-32.
I use the Tx, Rx and Gnd PINs of my botboarduino and I connect them to the SSC-32.
But when I look what I send on an hyperterminal, I don't have the good things...
Do I need something to do the link as a max232 for example?

Thank you very much!
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KM6VV
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:55 am 
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You should probably post a pix of your wiring. Terminals normally use RS-232. What are you connecting the the BB and the SSC-32 with to be able to watch from terminal?

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 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:04 pm 
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Check your baudrate settings
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Robot Dude
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:16 pm 
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This might help...

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piero78
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:01 am 
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Why you use pins 12 and 13 for the connection and don't use the TX/RX/GND PIN?

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Robot Dude
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:53 am 
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RX and TX are connected to the USB port. If there is anything connected to them you can not program the board without removing the connections. It also prevent using the hardware serial debugging...

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piero78
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:04 pm 
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It should be a problem, with a XBee shield.
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Dev5994
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:18 pm 
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You can use the Xbee shield with the BotBoarduino. Yes it will connect the Xbee to the UART. Yes this will prevent the board from being programmed while the shield is plugged in. No it will not stop it from working.

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piero78
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:28 am 
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Excuse me, if I understand, to use at the same time a XBee shield and the SSC-32 I've to connect the SSC-32 at the pins 12-13, it's right?

In this case whel I use the Serial class, I refer to the XBee or o the SSC-32?

Excuse me but I'm confuse about this double data trasmission.

Thanks!
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Dev5994
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:45 am 
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While using the Xbee shield you will be refering to the Xbee with Serial. As for the SSC-32 you'll need to use the Software Serial library.

Here's an example:

Code:
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial SSC(12, 13); //Serial object that represents the SSC-32

void setup()
{
   SSC.begin(38400);
   Serial.begin(115200);
}

void loop()
{
   //Code goes here
}


I would actually use a define statement to make my code easier to understand...

Code:
#define Xbee Serial

This line makes "Xbee" interchangeable with "Serial".

That way you could do this:

Code:
Xbee.begin(115200);
Xbee.print("Hello");
etc...

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piero78
 Post subject: Re: Botboarduino/SSC-32
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:10 pm 
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Thank you!

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