[Coco] Dragon & Drivewire

Ken H. dragon.atv at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 15:38:06 EDT 2012


Wow, that was quick.
Thanks, Aaron!
I will update once I manage to test it.
Ken



On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> The new 4.3.0 version has an option for this, untested...  (if this
> works, I'll add Dragon to the setup wizard with it preset, etc).
>
> For now, to enable:
>
> In the Config menu, choose "Configuration Editor".
>
> Along the top of the editor, toggle "Device" and "Show Advanced Items".
>
> Look for "ProtocolXORInputBits".  Toggle to true.
>
> Click "Write to Server" so the config is sent to the server.
>
> You'll have to then either Choose "Restart Instance Device" from the
> config menu or just restart DriveWire before it takes effect.  I'll
> make that smoother once we have it working correctly.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ken H. <dragon.atv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Aaron,
> > I now have the hardware part of the Dragon Driverwire adapter ready and
> > it's time to start testing.
> >
> > The max232 circuit takes care of the signal level shifting.
> >
> > I think that all we need the Drivewire server to do is to invert (xor)
> the
> > data bits coming from the Dragon to the PC.
> > Outgoing data from the PC to the Dragon should remain intact.
> >
> > If you could build a test version that takes care of this inversion I'd
> > like to give it a try.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
> >
>



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