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I'm stupid... :oops:

I reread almost everything I had saved including this topic. Tehrasha's comment about seeing >everything< that went in and out of the port kept bothering me. So I studied up the terminal program I was using. Sure enough, my assumptions made a... well you get the idea. I ...

I never recieved that, and AFAIK Br@y++ Term does show everything in and out of the port.

Here is the typical repsonce from both 4000 FLX. Actually this is what I always get.

Upon power-up this is sent. Kinda reminds me of baud detection timing packets?
00 80 80 80 00 00 00 80 80 00 80 00 80 80 ...

I think my balls are busted...

So I finally broke down and installed wine so I could run Br@y++ Terminal. https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/ Now I have complete controll over my com port :twisted: or so I think...

Found that both the DTR and RTS need to be on to power up the device, but after that it will send button ...

Thanks guys, I had this pluged in to serial port of old desktop (Dell OptiPlex GX270). So I took the other Space Ball and hooked it up to wife's Dell Latitude D820 laptop (also older with serial port). When I open port on that one it I think it has problems because it keeps trying to send the 0x00 ...

I confess, this is a duplicate post from 3Dconnexion Forums. It's been there a few days and I was reccomended this forum by Tehrasha Darkon.

Hello, I was hoping to use a 4000 FLX (I think it also goes by 5000 FLX-A or 5000 serial) as a HMI on different microcontroller based projects. It is branded ...