reading weighing scale data

[Ahamed Azeem]

Dear Gents, I have an electronic weighing scale connected to the PC. I can read the weight thru hyper terminal with the help of tcp/ip. (IP address: 192.168.5.5 and port number:23). How can i access the same using vb.net Please help me to acheive this Regards Azeem

[Thomas Stockwell]

I am not too familiar with terminal usage, but at first glance I would say emulation. I believe terminal is basically a command prompt window. Simply create a new terminal with Process.Start, and redirect the input and output to your application. Input would be the commands that you type to get the scale information, output would be what the application responds with that would be sent to your application. [Edit:Look into the startup info properties for the Process class.]

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

Google for a "tcp/ip terminal emulation library" you can use. It's either that or you're going to have to write one yourself using the System.Net namespace.

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[Rajesh Anuhya]

write a application for tcp-client, then connect to your terminal IP,Port You can get the data on your tcp-client socket.

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