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RE: Help with my IR tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:19:55 GMT
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Tom Pierce <TOMP@spamlessCITRIX.COM>
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Jeff -- I've hit the same issue with my tower. It starts off working fine,
but after around 5 or so minutes, it stops responding (and the old 'IR
Transmitter needs batteries or is in direct sunlight' message comes up). I
spent a couple of hours repeatedly trying to download the LEGO firmware to
the RCX -- it'd get about 75% done, then crap out (and only start working
again after a full system reboot).
This is on Win95. It's not the IR Tower itself, as I've used three different
towers (with fresh batteries) and gotten the same result. It only started
happening a couple of days ago, but has been consistantly irritable since.
No system changes have occured. I haven't had the time to really look into
what could be causing the problem.
Any info you find on this, please share, & I'll do the same.
By the way -- anyone else have trouble using RCX IR messages in NQC? I've
been unsuccessful in getting SendMessage() to work. Thanks all.
Tom Pierce
Manager of Web Services
Citrix Systems, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Battisti [SMTP:jeff@cs.rit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 9:16 am
> To: Lego-Robotics
> Subject: RE: Help with my IR tower
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> Thanks for the info Allen. Now, here is the strange thing. The green
> light
> comes on, so I don't believe it's a PC -> tower problem, but when I took
> the
> tower/RCX home last night it everything worked, which implies that the
> tower -> RCX is OK.
>
> Once again, thanks for the help,
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Martin [mailto:arm@rendition.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 10:41 PM
> To: jeff@cs.rit.edu; Lego-Robotics
> Subject: RE: Help with my IR tower
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> > SO... any one got any suggestions before I try to flag down
> > tech support at
> > LEGO?
>
> Well, the first thing to check is if the green LED inside the tower is
> lighting up when it tries to talk to the RCX. If it is, you know its
> a tower->RCX problem, if not, it's a PC->tower problem.
>
> -Allen
>
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 | | Re: Help with my IR tower
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| I've also just recently noticed very inconsistent operation with the IR tower and win95. My latest theory is that I've recently added the USR/3com PalmPilot software to my home PC which I know periodically polls the serial port (I've got the IR (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | RE: Help with my IR tower
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| (...) It took me a few tries to Message() and ClearMessage() to do what I wanted. At first I was clearing messages too often or not often enough. Here are a few lines of nqc code that work for me: int msg; task msgWatch { while(true) { msg = (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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