[Techtoolslist] Using Fluke 9010 with ethernet / Wi-Fi (solution)

[William Stillwell]

There a couple Serial->Ethernet adapters that work, if you run the
virtual comm port on the host os, and then pass thru it your 32bit or 16bit
OS it will work fine.


William Stillwell

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Board Member & Co-Founder - Byte Amusement Group // Free Play Florida
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:29 PM <davids at oz.net> wrote:

> I have seen a few ways of doing this in the past and wanted to share the
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> I have been using for less than $20.
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> I connected a HLK-RM04 serial -> Ethernet / Wi-Fi module to the fluke.
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> Then configured it for a fixed address on ethernet.
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> Then I run HW Virtual Serial Port software to route the com port on my
> desktop machine (running FIDE) to the address of the RM04.  For this I use
> the HW VSP3 Single software.
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> Works a treat, bi directional and over wired and wireless no dropouts or
> errors.  More reliable than a serial cable has been for me in the past.
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> 9600 baud, Even Parity,  1 stop, 8 data
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hi-link-HLK-RM04-Serial-Wifi-Ethernet-Wifi-Module-R
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> S232-RS485-Module/253225173923?hash=item3af56583a3:m:mmzCM_wQDHUjy1_NCBrQFvw
> <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hi-link-HLK-RM04-Serial-Wifi-Ethernet-Wifi-Module-RS232-RS485-Module/253225173923?hash=item3af56583a3:m:mmzCM_wQDHUjy1_NCBrQFvw>
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> https://www.hw-group.com/software/hw-vsp3-virtual-serial-port
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> This solution also works from within a Hyper-V Virtual Machine.  I created
> one running Windows 7 32 bit to support the FIDE software.  But I also
> verified today that running a Win 10 32 bit VM also works with FIDE and the
> VSP software (has to be 32 bit or the FIDE software and compilers won't
> work).
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> David
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