[GreenKeys] ST-8000A Price War Continues on eBay!

[Dino Papas]

On 28Jan2009, at 12:35 PM, Jon Schlegel wrote:

> What does V1.9 firmware provide over the existing version?

Jon -- That's a darn good question!  Frankly I don't know.....the  
only reason I updated mine to V1.9 is I just always like to have the  
latest....pretty sad huh?  Even Mark Prather at Hal couldn't recall  
the firmware upgrade details when I ordered the chip!  Again, too  
much time on my hands to think about this stuff.

> Scanning through the manual section on Remote Control, it seems that
> unless some fancy handshake were required etc, a simple comm program
> similar to "Hyper Terminal" or "Procomm" would work.  A simple comm
> prog would not provide any kind of tailor made graphical interface
> but it seems like it should talk to the unit.  Please let me know if
> I'm missing something here.

Hyperterminal works just fine....I also talked to the box with my Mac  
laptop and it's terminal program called "Z-Term".  Both the ST-8000  
and ST-8000A talk just fine at 9600 baud even with the simple three- 
wire RS-232 connection without hardware handshaking (the manual  
recommends hardware handshaking for baud rates above 1200 baud but it  
works fine for me without on both the ST-8000 and ST-8000a).  The  
factory default remote data baud rate is already set at 9600 baud  
[note: the factory default for the ST-8000 is 1200 baud].  The  
settings I used for both terminal programs was:

Baud rate -- 9600 baud
Data bits -- 8 bits
Parity -- none
Stop bits -- 2
Flow control -- none

Hope this helps!

73 -- Dino KL0S