Martin K wrote 2014-05-16 14:30:
> I emailed Olin and he said I could quote him on the piclist:
>
> (begin quote)
> If you send me Forrest Chritian's email address, I'll send him and
> Jan-Erik a reply.  Or if you like, you can mention on the list that the
> same command line software that worked with the ProProg also works with
> all our other programmers.  We are committed to supporting command line
> tools.
>
> The ProProg was discontinued because it was selling slowly, probably
> because it had a serial interface.  It's hardware was also not
> compatible with a lot of newer PICs that came out after the ProProg was
> designed.
>
> However, the USBProg2 is selling well and is hardware-compatible with
> all current PIC models, although not all of them are supported yet by
> the current software and firmware.  The USB protocol spec is completely
> open and available via free download, as is the firmware and software.
> We don't have existing software for it that runs on Linux, but would be
> happy to provide support for someone creating it.  Our own software is
> actually written to portability libraries that are intended to support
> different operating systems by having their lower layers re-written.
> The sections that need to be re-written are relatively small and
> contained, but it is still a big enough job that it would take some NRE
> for us to do it.
>
>

I actualy once had an idea of porting Olins CLI for the ProProg to=20
something else (OpenVMS in my case).

Regarding USB, I find that rather restrictive in a factory/production
environment. You need some other "computer" within an USB-cable-lenght
distance from the "target". With serial connections you are more flexible.

At a customer we have a production system that communicates with a lot
of barcode scanners, label printers and PLC's using RS232 over wireless
terminal servers like: www.lantronix.com/wibox. We have probably over
50 of these around the production site, and all communication programs
on one central system. It could just as well be a ProProg connected
to the WiBox...

OK, I guess that one also could use some kind of board like the
Raspberry Pi and let that one talk to the USBProg2 and then talk
via TCPIP to the Raspberry Pi from our central system. Or even
connect the Raspberry Pi serialy to the WiBox...

Has anyone seen anything like to WiBox linked above but with
USB ports that can be used remotely?

Jan-Erik.





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