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oops i didn't see the original posters date. mpt_adam , i recommend the moxas but i have not use any tibbo devices. gpeeler

i have used the moxa single ports, 5100 series for years on many many shows as serial device servers for RS-232, 422, and 485. I have never had them be inconsistent. You said you changed a port number on a projector, you are connecting to the projector with a 9 pin serial cable correct ? or were you talking about the port on the moxa ? to use WO with the moxa i would use TCP, set the moxa as a tcp multi client server and the serial settings required for your projector. often times the serial port of the projector is less configurable than these device servers. you may need to try different flow control settings for example if they are not specified in the projector manual. i have used these with fixed cameras, robo cameras, switchers, matrices, projectors, monitors, relays, and more. I guess you could have a bad one but if it is a dual serial port and working on one projector there may be a different problem. what happens when you cross plug them ? gpeeler

Also good to know Mike, thank you. i haven't had the chance to use 6 yet but soon i will. gpeeler

Thanks for the replies guys. I had pretty much gotten that far but i didn't know what some of the extra data was and whether or not it might be useful. I just copied the layer with my control cues and pasted that to notepad saved as csv imported to a spreadsheet. then i realized i could easily write a python script to extract the "good info". Which is what i am doing now. Tim your method might be more straight forward, i don't use excel but i will look for the filters in libre office. Jim i tried the same thing with the watch file but it was just too much stuff to filter, but again if i can find the right stuff to look for python could spit that to a list or table. Thanks a lot, still would be a good feature request i think. gpeeler

I have searched the forums but i must be using the wrong words and cannot find an answer to this: Is there any way to export cues and media in use to some kind of text document with their time positions ? Thanks in advance for any answers or smart work around ideas. gpeeler

when you do a working telnet command, how do you initiate the telnet session exactly ? are you at a prompt and type : telnet "ip address" "port number" or do you use any other parameters ? wireshark is not always right about what type of traffic is on a port. It is telling you what the port is normally used for. can you remove the password from the projector, at least for testing ? this is a common problem with panasonic projectors and the de facto action is to remove the password from the projector so you do not have to generate a security hash before each command you send. i would progress in the following way. remove the password if possible so you can start a telnet session and make the shutter work without entering any password, from any where. read the payload of the working packet in wireshark and use that data to prove the command string in packetsender. the payload will be the last set of hexadecimal characters, and you should see your 0D carriage return there also. if you can get it to work in packet sender then it will definitely work in watchout. i am pretty bored here so i might look at your projector manual. GP

Merten. You can use a couple software tools to figure this out. It sounds to me like the port has remained open or some such when it works in telnet then fails in watchout. many devices do not like multiple connections or clients. I like to use Packetsender, and wireshark to figure this stuff out. you could also need a line feed or something else. When you do telnet do use port number 10000 also or port 23 default telnet port ? are you using any other parameters when starting telnet ? also isn't port 10000 a udp port ? you might try to send as udp from watchout, but if it is working in telnet that doesn't really make sense. at any rate if you install wireshark and run it while doing the commands in telnet, you can go back and read the conversation and take the payload out of the packet that worked for you and put that into watchout either in hex or ascii. gpeeler

I have direct driven lens positions from watchout on projectors that have serial control by manually focusing, querying the lens positions and recalling them from an output string. what projectors are you using or what manufacturer ? gp