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I'd like to implement a Visual Basic program able to communicate with the RCX. RCX has commands to send and receive messages, but I don't no a way to send and receive it from a computer program. This way RCX could have an autonomous program and ask (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX-IR Tower Communication
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Did you download the spirit.ocx documentation? You can control almost everything with spirit commands. You can pol variable, send messages, ... I think that spirot.poll(source,number) will give the content of a variable, for instance. Or you could (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX-IR Tower Communication
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I downloaded that already. I confess I didn't explore all possibilities yet but sending messages to the RCX seens to be one of the limitations. I'm aware of the commands you mentioned but I'm not sure if they will work if the RCX moves out of range (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX-IR Tower Communication
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(...) They will fail if the rcx has to send messages and the tower "sleeps". The tower can always send messages, but enter into sleep mode after a few seconds (to the group : correct me if I'm wrong:-). The rcx can send message only if the tower is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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