DTR enable on serial DAT

I have a USB RFID reader and I need to get the DTR input high to get it to wake up. Seems like the VB/Python serial wrappers both have a parameter setDTR(boolean). Is this something that can be added to the Serial DAT? I can always use an external program but I just thought it would be fun to do RFID in Touch.

Hi James.

It’s currently not an option, but its something we can add as an option:
DTR control: enable / disable / handshake.

Cheers,
Rob.

Cool. It will probably be needed by anyone else that wants to use the parallax usb rfid reader with Touch in the future so might not be a total waste of time.

cool. It sounds pretty straight forward from what I’ve read.
-Rob

Alright it will be in the next build.
That is, control of both the DTR and RTS lines (disabled, enabled, handshake)
In addition the RTS line has a toggle option.

One thing to note, is that the DTR line seems to be enabled by default (at least in the internal comm port I was testing with). Perhaps its different default with different hardware and drivers.

Cheers,
Rob.

Hmm… that’s not very encouraging. Any idea when this will be released so I can test it out with my reader again?