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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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Help with my IR tower —Josh Stein
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help with my IR tower —Brian Stormont
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| | | | | | | (...) On my PC, I have to disable the Palm Pilot Hot Sync Task Bar item, otherwise it is impossible to talk to the IR tower. Fortunately, it's easy to do. Just click on the Hot Sync icon on the task bar and pick exit. Then the IR tower communication (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help with my IR tower —Ralph Hempel
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| | | | | | | Josh Stein wrote in message <36485C57.FB7CA91D@a...nl.gov>... (...) I don't have a Mindstorms, but I DO have problems accessing the serial port of my PCs when they are or have been running my Pilot Sync Manager. You can disable the item by clicking (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help with my IR tower —Bryan Costin
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| | | | | | Josh Stein wrote in message <36485C57.FB7CA91D@a...nl.gov>... (...) tower (...) PalmPilot (...) (I've got (...) I (...) PalmPilot or (...) Yah. The HotSync software will interfere with just about anything that uses a serial port, as will the WinCE (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: Help with my IR tower —Paul Haas
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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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