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Create Palm Software to Communicate with Your Serial Devices
Home > Palm Serial Communications

Check out B&B's Palm Converters!

B&B offers products to connect your Palm® PDA to the rest of the world. Let B&B interface your Palm's serial port to anything from RS-485 systems to a heavy duty vehicle's J1708 diagnostic bus

Palm to RS-422 and RS-485 product information
Palm to J1708 product information
Palm with Universal Connector to RS-485 (M500, M505, i705, etc) product information

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Syphon Freeware

Install SyphonT freeware from B&B Electronics onto your Palm PDA to turn your PDA into a measurement and control instrument with graphical capabilities. Download Syphon Software.

Syphon Related Products:
232SDA12 - RS-232 Data Acquisition Module w/11 12 bit A/D
232PS - 12VDC@100mA Power Supply, Wall transformer
232CAMS - DB25 Male to DB9 Female 6 inch Adapter Cable
9M3C - Palm IIIx, VII to DB9 Male Cable, 40 Inch Length
9MM100C - Palm M100, M105 to DB9 Male Cable, 40 Inch Length
9MPUC - Palm M125, M500, M50x to DB9 Male Cable, 40 Inch Length

 

Portabella v1.0 (Freeware)

Portabella is a basic serial communications program that sends and receives data through the serial port on your Palm OS device and displays the bytes in an easy-to-read format. You can effortlessly define transmit strings in hex notation and send them out with a click of a button. Portabella comes with complete source code and can be modified to fit your needs.

Download Portabella Software.

 

Create Software to communicate with your serial devices!

Palm Applications from B&B Electronics

Are you wondering how to write software that will allow you to communicate to serial devices with your Palm? Just download PalmTerm for a complete and easy example to get started.

PalmTerm is a simple program that demonstrates serial communications with the Palm OS. It was created with CodeWarrior.

PalmTerm simply displays the characters transmitted and received. You can define up to 5 transmit strings which you can include regular text or hexadecimal characters that are specified between <>.

PalmTerm comes with source code and includes all the serial routines that you may need to start writing your own serial communication programs. Simply cut and paste the following serial communications routines and with minor modifications, get working in your application.

void OpenSerialPort(void)
void CloseSerialPort(void)
void TransmitData(char* chrBuffer)
void ReceiveData(void)

 

Download palmterm.exe (137 KB)
Read more about CodeWarrior.
Download CodeWarrior Lite.

 

Need more help Programming the Palm?

A comprehensive directory to provide the answer quickly. If you want a thorough grounding in Palm programs, it has a series of 24 one-hour lessons, accompanied by a CD, that will get you up and programming like an expert. For novices or those with some programming experience.

To purchase, view the Table of contents, or for an overview of this book please go to its product page.


 

 

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