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Author Topic: Barco "s" series - USB communication Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-26-2014 02:33 PM                     Barco DP2K-8s/10s projectors do not have a serial port connection (except through the touchpanel cable which I don't have). The manual says the USB "B" connector can be used for control but it is called "virtual comport RS232". Has anyone tried using this connector for projector control/setup, and if so... how do you do it? It's a holiday and the tech on duty at Barco doesn't have the answer. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-26-2014 03:06 PM                     Out of curiosity, have you tried hooking up a computer to it via USB and then seeing what options show up in the serial drop-down box? I would give that a try. Definitely have the latest Communicator, 4.8.13 when you give it a go.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-26-2014 04:25 PM                     Interesting, I was wondering how to connect to a Barco S when the IP was unknown. Let us know!  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-26-2014 04:45 PM                     Could be one of the popular USB->RS232 converters built in, so that you're able to connect to the Barco without a notebook with physical COM Ports. In that case you would see a driver installation popup when plugging the cable in. Or, you have that particular chipset driver already installed from a previous converter installation (Prolific, SILABS, FTDI, etc.) and the Barco then would simply show up on a virtual COM Port. Just give it a try and look into windows' device manager. If the Barco implements it's own USB-Serial Bridge, then a recent version of Communicator would need to have a driver built in the software or the installation routine. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-26-2014 05:44 PM                     Carsten may well have it. You plug it into your laptop, run DCP Communicator, you'll notice that you can select a serial port you didn't have before.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-27-2014 08:01 PM                     Nope. Windows doesn't even notice anything is plugged into USB, no "installing new device" popup, no unknown device in device manager.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-28-2014 12:38 AM                     Windows doesn't report anything for me either Dave, I mean a serial port you didn't have before in DCP Communicator. I'll take a screen grab next time I'm near one.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-28-2014 02:18 AM                     I know FTDI has devices that report as generic HID devices with no explicit installation dialog - like a keyboard or mouse. It's there, but not as an unknown device. Then an application can use internal drivers to access it. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-28-2014 05:26 AM                     I haven't checked myself but last time a device was not listed on the device manager I found it under "devices and printers"  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-28-2014 09:04 AM                     Nothing found in device manager, no new ports in communicator. maybe someone at Barco knows but no answer yet. The tech I spoke to did say there were no drivers that would load on connection, just that there was "some way" to use the USB as serial. If I can get that devilish round touchpanel connector I can make a serial cheater cord.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-29-2014 12:28 PM                     I'm with a 8S tomorrow morning, I'll have a look at how it works. I've never given it any real thought as it's always just worked for me.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-30-2014 05:15 AM                     Cool, it installs a device called "USB <-> Serial" and a "USB Serial port" shows up in the device manager. Very clever. Windows 7 found the drivers itself, not sure if they come with Windows or with Communicator.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-30-2014 12:12 PM                     Or are on the projector? I'll put the screengrabs up in due course.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-30-2014 02:11 PM                     port driver properties should indicate which kind of device it is, e.g. Manufacturer ID. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-30-2014 05:25 PM                     I don't think a driver could be downloaded from the device you need the drivers to connect to! I am not sure if it got the drivers from Windows Update or from the OS, I wasn't looking.  |  IP: Logged

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