Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:06:08 + Joe wrote: > There are systems which will automatically recognise baud rate by > assuming the shortest mark or space represents the rate, but this > needs fairly good signal strength and reasonable jitter to work. It > generally can't be done well through the UA

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yep, after thinking a bit and poking the interwebs for good measure, I'm > convinced now that you are right. Miscreant! Stefan

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 04:28:14PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > > The CH340 is a real USB<->serial converter, so somewhere inside the > > device is a real serial connection which speaks at a specific speed and > > the CH3

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with > >> something like cp210x should deal with multiple devices, assigning them > >> ttyUSBx device numbers. > [...] > > I doubt all that baud rate, stop bits and

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with >> something like cp210x should deal with multiple devices, assigning them >> ttyUSBx device numbers. [...] > I doubt all that baud rate, stop bits and parity dance we know and love > from the RS232s of yore are necessary with

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 09:44:55PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:10:53 -0400 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with > something like cp210x sh

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen.

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/10/2024 03:07, Dan Ritter wrote: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 kernel: [1915052.251232] usb 7-1.4.4: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 mtp-probe: checking bus 7, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.7/usb7/7-1/7

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 24 October 2024 03:26:06 pm to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > Connecting the device with a USB cab

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen. > > >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:21:24 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at > > > which point there's a menu on its screen.

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:10:53 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug > > wrote: > > > > > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I > > > can tell, the company

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen. > > > > Start "journalctl -f" as root b

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > there's a menu on its screen. > > Start "journalctl -f" as root before connecting the device. Logs may >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, > > the company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > > > A friend of mine managed to a

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/10/2024 22:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: 1) download the applications from ANCEL website. www.anceltech.com [...] Installing software from a Chinese vendor does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. The question is whether there is an a

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point there's a menu on its screen. Start "journalctl -f" as root before connecting the device. Logs may contain some hints how to communicate with it. Perhaps "udevadm monitor"

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:14:52AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > Installing software from a Chinese vendor does not give me a warm and > fuzzy feeling. Yes, like - Cisco - Solarwinds - Microsoft - Crowdstrike oh, wait... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the > company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS > emulation and the original DOS s

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:39:36 am George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the > company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS > emulation and the

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 21 October 2024 07:47:39 am Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT > > video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" > > for this device (available

Re: battery tester

2024-10-21 Thread George at Clug
Hi, I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the company does not provide Linux drivers or software. A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS emulation and the original DOS software. Maybe you could use Wine to run the Windows "Print

Re: battery tester

2024-10-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which requires yo

Re: battery tester

2024-10-20 Thread David Christensen
On 10/20/24 10:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which requires you t