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Crappy protocols
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rickmcneely
Has anyone else been forced to work with the new Middle Atlantic RackLink systems? Where do people come up with these bizarre protocols?
1. Protocol is all hex. 2. You have to generate checksums on serial and over IP. 4. When connected via serial, the device will ping you and if you don't respond it will quit accepting commands. They've got enough processing horsepower to run a webserver on the device, so I'm sure they could do better than a protocol from 1976. |
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Seth Olle
I heard once in 1976 they hired Tim(name made up) to do all the protocols for pretty much everyone.
Then never changed them again, when checksums and all that other stupid stuff was necessary. I like simple POWERON for example. Makes sense. It seems to be less and less, I can remember back in the day, all the time doing complex string parsing, for huge hex strings. Not so much anymore. From: rickmcneely <rickmcneely@...<mailto:rickmcneely@...>> Reply-To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:22 PM To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>> Subject: [Crestron] Crappy protocols Has anyone else been forced to work with the new Middle Atlantic RackLink systems? Where do people come up with these bizarre protocols? 1. Protocol is all hex. 2. You have to generate checksums on serial and over IP. 4. When connected via serial, the device will ping you and if you don't respond it will quit accepting commands. They've got enough processing horsepower to run a webserver on the device, so I'm sure they could do better than a protocol from 1976. |
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You're complaining about fixed length delimited strings? How lazy are we getting! :)
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Seth Olle
Fixed length what
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OLD SCHOOL From: matt_rasmussen_2000 <mjrtoo@...<mailto:mjrtoo@...>> Reply-To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:34 PM To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>> Subject: [Crestron] Re: Crappy protocols You're complaining about fixed length delimited strings? How lazy are we getting! :) --- In Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron%40yahoogroups.com>, Seth Olle <seth@...> wrote:
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Chip
Have you tried the I2P module to see if it might save you some headaches? Some of 'em work, y'know? :)
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Slackers, 20 years later and the laziness continues!
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rickmcneely
I wish! It's an AMX job. They have modules for it, but a firmware change on the RackLink broke that too. Another reason to dislike it.
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rickmcneely
I suppose that is a good way to look at it. I'm just too crabby to adopt that view myself! :-)
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