Re: usb temperature control question

Hi Ian (all),
Thank you for replying - are there any USB temperature loggers on the 
market that comedi has drivers for?

Thanks again,
Adrian Sindile


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Ian Abbott wrote:

> On 31/07/2006 18:50, Adrian T Sindile wrote:
>> Our group at UNH bought the following USB-based board from Measurement 
>> Computing for reading thermocouples:
>> 
>> http://www.measurementcomputing.com/cbicatalog/cbiproduct_new.asp?dept_id=480&pf_id=1692&mscssid=H04KX4H5EGTM9LUM79A00EFEQ36J8NPF 
>> Is there a driver available to use with this board? I have installed and 
>> compiled comedi and I was able to test it using the comedi_test (no 
>> hardware) driver:
>> 
>> # modprobe comedi_test
>> # comedi_config /dev/comedi0 comedi_test
>> 
>> This is the first time I would use comedi with hardware, so I would 
>> appreciate step-by-step instructions on how to get this board to work with 
>> Linux and comedi (I would really like to move away from Windows and Labview 
>> which have been used in our group so far)...
>
> There is no Comedi driver for that board or any other Measurement Computing 
> USB devices, so you'll have to find someone to write said driver if you want 
> to use it with comedi.  This is assuming you can extract the necessary 
> programming details for the device from Measurement Computing's technical 
> department, or failing that, can reverse engineer the information by sniffing 
> the USB bus on Windows.
>
> There are a few USB device drivers in Comedi that may be studying.  The book 
> "Linux Device Drivers" third edition, published by O'Reilly also has 
> information on writing USB drivers (it can be found online, but is more 
> convenient in paper form!).  For prototyping and experimentation before 
> writing the real driver, it may be worth experimenting with the device in 
> user-space via libusb.
>
>

Received on 2006-08-01Z14:31:35