Our company has an electronic LED display that we want to use for safety statistics. It has 7 lines with 8 LED's per line. Does anyone know of any software that we can make use of to communicate and configure such a LED display? For instance, we would like to define the first line as the current date, and this should increment automatically. The second line will be defined as "Hours worked without a LWDC" and should increment hourly with a specified amount of hours according to personnel strength. The board uses standard RS232 (9600 baud rate) communication through the serial port of a PC. Any clever control systems programmers with suggestions?
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Software to communicate with Electronic LED Display
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That's a bit difficult at the moment. It is mounted to a wall high up and no one has any specific details in the display. We "inherited" this from someone without any details. All I can make out is something that looks like "Polycorp" or "Polycomp".
http://www.polycomp.co.za/downloads.htm
Perhaps get the first download (the demo software) and the serial capture.
http://www.polycomp.co.za/protocol.htm
Or just broswe the whole www.polycomp.co.za site
Perhaps get the first download (the demo software) and the serial capture.
http://www.polycomp.co.za/protocol.htm
Or just broswe the whole www.polycomp.co.za site
I did have a look at that demo software, but it is only usefull for a static display e.g. the price of beer
. What we need is to set it up to increment the hours worked by that amount of persons on site every hour (160 persons working in our division, so the hours would increment by 160 every hour. With that software you have to change everything by hand. Any other suggestions?
. What we need is to set it up to increment the hours worked by that amount of persons on site every hour (160 persons working in our division, so the hours would increment by 160 every hour. With that software you have to change everything by hand. Any other suggestions?Read the protocol and write a simple VB program (I think VB express is still available on the net, or a c/c++/pascal with a Tcl GUI). All you are basically doing is updating the display constantly with new info.
Seems like the dispay has some nice features. Can I have it?
Seems like the dispay has some nice features. Can I have it?
Repitah, Thanks for trying to help, but I have no clue as to what you are telling me to do!? I work as a Gas Chromatographer in a laboartory and have no programming skills whatsover. it is just that we have this display and everybody wants to have it up and running, but no-one are doing anything about it. That is why I am trying to get something in place.
Do you know a Highschool kiddie (matric) studying Computer Studies/Science HG? They program in pascal/delphi or Visual Basic. He/she can knock up a little program to run the signboard for you. It helps if they have internet access as they will have to learn how to write to the serial port. A college/varsity person with basic programming skills should be able to do it as well. -- Let them see it as a simple challenge (it is simple) to show off some skills
Otherwise, I think you'll have to ask the people at polycomp if they've got a program for you, but it'll prolly cost some money.
Otherwise, I think you'll have to ask the people at polycomp if they've got a program for you, but it'll prolly cost some money.