[GreenKeys] Weather & News

[Paul Wills (CKT&T)]

I made it a point to get a PC with a "real" serial support that will 
support 45 baud.  I suspect that we'll never see those again.

Silicon Devices has a CP2102 development kit with a USB/Serial converter 
where one can set arbitrary baud rates including 45.  I have a couple of 
those in case I need to get a new PC.  They actually work very well.

Most of the USB/Serial converters either don't support slow speeds or 
are "locked" so you can't change them.

Unfortunately, I understand that they have a new version of the chip 
(CP2102N) which will not allow anyone to set the baud rate so be careful.

PDW

On 3/31/2021 2:43 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> Jeff G,
>
> I was not running anything extra.  For W7 (& earlier), HM 2.5 
> communicates directly with the computer's serial port. For display 
> purposes, I have an optocoupler that plugs into the computer's serial 
> port and keys the TTY loop directly.
>
> You can opem HM 2.5 on Win 10. It opens, and drop-down menus work, but 
> if you try to print anything, you get an error that it can't find the 
> serial port.
>
> If you can make something that will allow HM 2.5 work with win 10, it 
> would be much appreciated by us all.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
>
>
> On 31-Mar-21 14:17, Jeff G wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, for the OP, are you running a serial adapter 
>> with Heavy Metal? If so I may be able to share part of a new script I 
>> wrote to replicate similar functionality, but using a new scripting 
>> language (Powershell) thats built into Windows 10 (And also available 
>> for Linux). I haven't worked on it for a while but last I used it, It 
>> printed out current weather and also leveraged an API to get cat jokes.
>>
>> Jeff KC3GJX
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:09 PM Duncan Brown 
>> <duncanancy at earthlink.net <mailto:duncanancy at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Tom,
>>
>>     HeavyMetal 2.5 will run on Windows XP & W7.  It will not run if
>>     there is
>>     no serial port.
>>
>>
>>     Paul Wills,
>>
>>     If you have solved the problems of HM 2.5 & Javier's HM 3.0, please
>>     share them with the rest of us.
>>
>>     Steve,
>>
>>     Is this a newer version of Javier's HM 3.0 ?  I could never get his
>>     original program to work and others had problems with it also.
>>     Anything
>>     special you had to do to make it work?
>>
>>
>>     Thank,
>>
>>     Duncan
>>     K2OEQ
>>
>>
>>     On 31-Mar-21 11:45, Tom Hunter wrote:
>>     > Paul Wills,
>>     >
>>     > What operating system are you running Heavy Metal on? I have
>>     Heavy Metal but understand it takes Windows 95/98. And where are
>>     you getting weather and News?
>>     >
>>     > Tom   N3CRK
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