I would like to test an ASCII function to talk to a barcode scanner ahead of recieving the actual CLX processor and point i/o cards.

Just a quickie to see if anyone has sucessfully used the com port on their PC as the 'Channel 0 Serial Port' and send ASCII data out of it using RSLogix Emulate 5000.

When I configure a new controller I am give the option to specify a pc com port as 'Channel 0 Serial Port', so I choose com 1.

Com 1 is now unavailable to any other Windoze application and waiving my cursor over the controller looks thus:

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All seems good, however, using a com port monitoring tool I can see that my Emulator is not sending anything out of the com port.

Also if i shutdown the emulator and start it again it looses com port configuration and I have to create a new controller everytime.

At this moment I am thinking if this is even a proper function of the emulator...I cant see it documented in any manuals.

Thanks for any help.