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First post, by g01df1sh

Posted on 2015-02-19, 11:57

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Hi Can you please tell me what the dummy option is for when configuring serial ports. I Have configured serial 1 as below.

serial1=directserial comport:1 realport:com1
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

serial2 has dummy what does this mean / do

Reply 1 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2015-02-19, 14:23

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To put it simply, it means that it isn't disabled, so some programs will still be able to detect it. However, it also isn't going to do anything. Does that make sense?

Reply 2 of 3, by g01df1sh

Posted on 2015-02-19, 15:11

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Yes thank you. I will set it to disabled to see if the serial error messages go away. Every thing is working as should be with machine that communicates through serial1. So I am thinking maybe the errors are from serial 2

Reply 3 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2015-02-19, 16:00

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I don't think anyone can really comment on that without more information about what sort of "serial error messages" you are seeing.

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