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crackerjack

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Joined: 11/07/2011
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Posted: 11:59am 18 Mar 2012

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Hi again one-and-all.

A small tip this time. For those who don't have hardware RTC setup and want their Maximite Date and Time updated easily, the following is a small Powershell script to do so. Just run the script from your PC when you connect the MMM/DM and Date and Time is quickly set without fiddling about (or forgetting). There are probably ways of kicking off the script as soon as the USB device is detected, but I do it manually. As for Powershell scripting, that is a whole other story I won't get into now, but for those who are interested, script follows (it could undoubtedly be done in any language of choice which has Serial IO functionality):

[code]
$port = new-Object System.IO.Ports.SerialPort com4,9600,None,8,one
$port.Open()
$port.WriteLine("date$=`"" + (get-date -format ("dd/MM/yyyy")) + "`"")
Start-Sleep -m 100
$port.WriteLine("time$=`"" + (get-date -format ("hh:mm:ss")) + "`"")
Start-Sleep -m 100
$port.WriteLine("Cls");
$port.Close()
[/code]

Note the com4 in the first line should be set to whatever COM Port your MM/DM is connected to, and that the script should be run before firing up TeraTerm (,etc.) and connecting to the *Mite.

Cheers.

CircuitGizmos

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Posted: 03:46pm 18 Mar 2012

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That is pretty much the same thing that my button does in MMIDE. Very convenient to set the date/time first thing.

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BobD

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Posted: 01:46am 19 Mar 2012

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crackerjack said There are probably ways of kicking off the script as soon as the USB device is detected,

Does anybody know how to start this script on usb detection? I have been googling but no success so far. Edited by BobD 2012-03-20

Ray B
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Posted: 09:40am 19 Mar 2012

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Original solution to this challenge using TeraTerm as previously posted by James of Canberra as follows:

http://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3582

Cheers

RayB from Perth WA

crackerjack

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Posted: 10:33am 19 Mar 2012

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Thanks RayB - nice one by James. I think that was posted just before I joined the forum. Good to see a simple solution.

Cheers.

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