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In lugnet.robotics.spybotics, Jay Francis wrote:
> I'm a little surprised that the Spybot doesn't need to see the packet header
> byte - the byte containing the range/orientation bits preceding the 0x8n Ping
> byte. The header is deliberately generated with the stop bit cleared to force a
> framing error. I thought it was a convenient (or necessary??) method for the
> Spybot to detect a start of packet.
>
> Does your IR monitoring see this byte - or does it get gobbled up due to the
> framing error?
I presume that somewhere that data is being dropped. It isn't showing up as
data the tower reports to the operating system.
I haven't actually tried the function I posted the other day so it is entirely
possible that a Spybot will not recognize it as a valid Ping.
Have you tried it yet?
John Hansen
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/
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