[PythonCE] General questions
Frédéric Mantegazza
frederic.mantegazza at gbiloba.org
Sun Oct 21 16:55:18 CEST 2007
On dimanche 21 octobre 2007, alexandre.delattre at enst-bretagne.fr wrote:
> by USB Master, I guess you mean USB Host
Yes.
> some Acer models like my n321 have this feature so you can plug an usb
> stick or hard disk to access data.
>
> As far as I know, communications with PythonCE can be made :
>
> - by network, using the standard socket module (useful for wifi)
> - by serial port, using the port of pyserial, ceserial
> (http://www.problemboard.com/dl/ceserial.zip), this works for real
> serial port and bluetooth serial port profile.
Ah, I didn't know that Bluetooth was just like real serial ports... Good
point. Except that it requires more current, and needs a Bluetooth module
on the other side, this can be easy to use, and more common than serial or
USB host ports...
> If you want to stick with USB, I think you should try to create a
> virtual serial port for usb with the driver given at
> http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm (don't know if it works for
> all devices) and use ceserial. Or maybe there's some drivers to setup
> ip over usb, then you can use the regular socket module.
Yes, my idea was to use a FTDI chip. But I'm afraid I don't have the
knowledge to develop a driver undre WindowsCE...
Merci :o)
--
Frédéric
http://www.gbiloba.org
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