Issues with serial driver for Epson 6020ub

[troyfrezze]

I'm attempting to move away from the IR driver and start using Epson's serial driver to control my projector. At this time, the 9 pin Null modem cable runs from Serial 1 on the 800, about 10 feet over to the projector.

 

Composer shows the 800 connected on serial 1 and the projector has the video end point of my theater.

 

When I try to tell anything to "watch" the receiver and device I want to watch still come on, but nothing from the projector. I've gone into composer and viewed the LUA to determine that if I hit the "Display Globals" it does in fact speak to the projector. I can confirm this because it validates the # of hours in lamp usage, the status of the projector and so on.

 

Per the documentation it states the commands are:

PWR ON

PWR OFF

SOURCE

3D

 

But when I try to enter say the command PWR ON I get the following:

[string "C4Commands"]:1:'=' expected near 'ON'

 

and nothing happens.

 

Any help here would be appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

[xc420]

Add a return after the command.   "PWR ON" $0D

[troyfrezze]

I'm assuming it's my syntax with the LUA programing. I'm trying to read up more on it. I'm just surprise that just hitting watch, then selecting the device doesn't power it on. I'm trying out different LUA commands in hopes to get it to respond, but so far nothing.

[RyanE]

Lua (not an acronym, so not all caps) in DriverWorks drivers is not just a list of serial commands, and typing in the serial command for the projector isn't going to be valid Lua.

 

Likely somewhere in the code section of the driver, there'll be some code like:

 

C4:SendToSerial(1, "") in a function called something like 'SendToProjector' or something along those lines.

 

You would need to call the 'send' function (whatever it's called) with the data values passed in to have something get sent out the serial port.

 

RyanE

[cdepaola]

If you double click on the driver it should bring up a virtual controller for that device.  Can you turn it on or off from this?  If not, turn the unit on manually and see if you can control any of the other functions from this virtual controller. 

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[ILoveC4]

I have an Epson 4030 that I'm controlling over serial and it works flawlessly...did right out of the gate.

I can let you know which I'm driver using if you think it would be helpful. I'm thinking it's for a 3020 or something, but could be wrong. I'll double check later today and post back.

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[R_Willis]

I have an Epson 4030 that I'm controlling over serial and it works flawlessly...did right out of the gate.

I can let you know which I'm driver using if you think it would be helpful. I'm thinking it's for a 3020 or something, but could be wrong. I'll double check later today and post back.

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I'd be interested to know which driver you are using with your 4030 as I picked up one the other day. Thanks!

[ILoveC4]

I can check if you'd like...

[troyfrezze]

I finally got around to working on the Epson driver issue. Confirmed the 6020ub drivers do not work. One thing I noticed was in the Lua when I would do a "display globals" the gIsConnected: was always false. So I went and tried using the 3020 drivers you mentioned. Right off the bat the gIsConnected status changed to true and so far everything I've entered works fine.