Reading Serial or Parallel Ports from Excel

traversd · Apr 23rd, 2002, 03:28 AM

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience of reading realtime data from the Parallel or Serial ports from within Excel ?

I want to read the Parallel / Serial Port every second or so and store the value in a cell, with the next reading being stored below.

Anyone any ideas ?

Dhussar · Apr 29th, 2002, 05:08 PM

We sell a software wedge that you can do this with for about $200. I don't like to use this for comercial purposes but it does work nice for this. Send a private message if you would be interested.

Damon Ostrander · Apr 30th, 2002, 11:45 AM

Hi Traversd,

Do a search on this site or the 'net for the MSCOMM control. This control provides the capability to read/write serial ports. It can be downloaded free from a number of sites, including microsoft.com.

Damon

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Apr 23rd, 2002, 03:28 AM	#1
traversd Board Regular Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 82	Hi, Does anyone have any experience of reading realtime data from the Parallel or Serial ports from within Excel ? I want to read the Parallel / Serial Port every second or so and store the value in a cell, with the next reading being stored below. Anyone any ideas ?

Apr 29th, 2002, 05:08 PM	#2
Dhussar New Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5	We sell a software wedge that you can do this with for about $200. I don't like to use this for comercial purposes but it does work nice for this. Send a private message if you would be interested.

Apr 30th, 2002, 11:45 AM	#3
Damon Ostrander MrExcel MVP Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Denver, Colorado USA Posts: 4,014	Hi Traversd, Do a search on this site or the 'net for the MSCOMM control. This control provides the capability to read/write serial ports. It can be downloaded free from a number of sites, including microsoft.com. Damon