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N3Roaster / typica

Free software for coffee roasting operations.
https://typica.us
MIT License
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Error1 Message? #133

Closed Kidazpan closed 9 years ago

Kidazpan commented 9 years ago

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I bought a DATAQ DI-145 to try and also made a same setup like you set on Youtube with my Diedrich IR-1.

After Click on "Roast Coffee" Button is shows Error1 : An error occurs.(photo attached)

Any Suggestions?

Warm Regards,Ed.

N3Roaster commented 9 years ago

To use the DATAQ DI-145 it is necessary to install the DATAQ SDK as documented for that hardware which provides a set of libraries and executables that Typica uses to communicate with that hardware. That particular error code indicates a failure to load the appropriate library. The most likely explanation is that simply isn't installed.

If it is installed then the next possibility is that the assigned port number for the device doesn't match with the available libraries. The DATAQ SDK is rather unusual in this regard as instead of having a single library that should be used regardless of the port number, it ships several DI1xxNT.DLL files where xx corresponds to the port number (with leading 0 for single digit port numbers). For example, if the device is assigned to COM12, it's recommended to load DI112NT.DLL, but DATAQ Instruments does not ship such files for all possible port numbers. An immediate workaround in this case would be to see which DLLs exist and manually set the port number to something appropriate.

If it turns out to be the case that the SDK is installed and the assigned port is out of range, I'd like to know that. While the DATAQ SDK documentation recommends loading a DLL corresponding to the port number, I've tested that this is not strictly required and that it works to just load whatever and make the (required regardless) API call to set the correct port. In this case the process started by the library won't have a name matching the port number in the task manager, but that's a cosmetic issue rather than a functional one.

Please let me know regardless of which of these is true so I can decide an appropriate disposition for the opened issue.

Kidazpan commented 9 years ago

(Edit: Original message removed by request.)

N3Roaster commented 9 years ago

Github seems to strip image attachments from email replies so I don't have those. It might be better to take this to email. I can be reached at roaster@wilsonscoffee.com. Given that this doesn't appear to be an issue with Typica I'm closing the issue.

PS: Your message went to a public web site where the confidentiality boilerplate looks rather silly. You might want to be a little more careful with that in the future.