The Doug Hall RBI-1 is a serial device but it is not a rs232 device. It's clock timings can not be generated by any other means (at this time by app_rpt). Perhaps you could spoof out a few serial lines and add some hardware but would be a bunch of work to incorporate in the source code as it is. Perhaps as a external set using scripting ?

I found it easier to use a ATOM PC board that had the parallel port.

Just a note, I do not think that a USB to parallel converter will work for this either. The usb converters don't seem to support the pin punching in linux. I would be happy to hear if someone gets that to work though.

If You want to develop a new method, I'm sure there are a lot of folks that have no parallel ports that would send you flowers for your work !

Sorry, poor humor, but it's just not a reasonable thing considering the alternatives. The parallel port is the easiest way to generate the timings required to send data to it. Remembering that the RBI-1 was designed for hardwired controllers that already had a serial data and strobe line like the ACC's and CAT.

...mike/kb8jnm

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Subject: [App_rpt-users] Connect Doug Hall RBI-1 to URIx
From: Michael Wolthuis <wolthuis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, April 21, 2014 10:58 pm
To: "app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org>

Does anyone have info on how to control the Doug Hall RBI-1 from a URIx without the need to use the parallel port on the computer?

Possibly there existed an interface at one time to do this?

What is the recommended method of doing so for remote base? Trying to stay away from needing a parallel port also if possible.

There used to be a page on the drupal site, but I can’t locate it.

Mike
kb8zgl

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