[NTLK] Newton USB Dongle

[Jeff Sheldon]

Jake,

My only concern with that item are the keywords rs232, db8, and db6. 

Looks like db8, but it advertises the FTDI F232 chip only.  RS-232 isn't compatible with RS-422 without a converter. None of the examples I've seen of such an arrangement are elegant. And the only USB-to-DB8 RS-422 cables I'm seeing are for PLC device programming and might have more going on than just standard serial communications (plus they have a big brick in the middle of the cable).

Any dongle advertising itself as a "Mac serial port" USB adapter that can use the existing cable and interconnect adapter is the -very- easiest solution. 

I don't like the snap-together approach I'm seeing though with what's on the market.  Will look at what we can build, openly, that's more of a unified cable. 


-Jeff

> On Feb 5, 2017, at 08:29, Jake Bordens <jake at allaboutjake.com> wrote:
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> Wonder if this is the right serial pinout to go directly into the interconnect adapter? 
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> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android-mac-win10-linux-pl2303hxd-usb-serial-rs232-adapter-cable-with-mini-DIN-6P-or-8P/32785461863.html
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> Would eliminate a cable and adapter in my setup.
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> On 2/5/17, 8:29 AM, "newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net on behalf of "Piotrowski Paweł (Newton)"" <newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net on behalf of newton at indigi.co.uk> wrote:
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>   Any link, name, type?
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>> On 5 Feb 2017, at 12:47, Jake Bordens <jake at allaboutjake.com> wrote:
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>> I recently purchased a FDTI serial cable for use in Mac OS Sierra and it worked without drivers.. I had a prolific-chipset cable but the driver was causing my machine to crash, so I decided to get the FDTI since it was more compatible, and apparently did not need drivers (though I do a lot of tinkering so its possible I had a driver installed for another device. 
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>> I find it suspicious that it doesn’t show up as a USB device with a PID/VID in the profiler… that would indicate that it isn’t even showing up on the USB bus.  However silly, maybe try a different USB cable, sometimes cheap USB cables are charge-only. I’ve gotten bitten by that before.
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>> Side note, I would like to acquire one of these “Adriano” dongles, if anyone has a stash of them and is willing to part with one. Would make development a little easier. My guess is that they are rare, and folks don’t want to part with them, and for that I’d understand.
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