Re: screen scraping from scales

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 15:58, Scott Klement wrote:
> Instead, what I recommend is to create an interface to get the weight
> information back to your program that's designed for program-to-program
> communications, rather than one that is designed for interfacing with a
> human being.
I second that.

> It's common today for scales to have RS-232 interfaces.  With these
> interfaces, when a weight is placed on a scale, the weight is sent
> straight out that port.  That port can be connected to a PC or even to an
> iSeries (if the scale is within 50 ft or so of the iSeries) and read
> directly by a program.
Actually, there are devices that can translate serial to ethernet to
serial again, so this distance limitation can be eliminated, especially
in the case where your chosen device doesn't have an ethernet port, or
the version of that device that does have an ethernet port is too
costly.  

http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/dgi/dgi101.html


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Regards,
Rich

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