Reading ALDL 8192 stream from '165

[Ludis Langens]

Craig Moates wrote:
> 
> I've done exactly no serial I/O programming to this point, so I could be
> missing the boat here. I do get values, but very limited (like FE, 00, FC,
> and that's about it). These repeat pretty regularly. I've used 'PCMComm'
> with similar levels of result. What's next? How do I tell this ECM to talk
> to me, and what are these values I am seeing, assuming that they are really
> from the ECM? When I disconnect it, or the power supply, everything goes to
> zero.

Isn't the '165 one of the few applications that start out in 160 baud
mode, and only switch to 8192 mode after receiving a specific command? 
(The FE, FC, and 00 match what you'd get with a 160/8192 baud rate mismatch.)

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