| Due to the problems we have encountered trying to serially communicate directly with the Met One DR-528 particle counter, I went ahead and ordered the add-on communications/charging dock. The dock "ethernetizes" the serial communications by wrapping them in TCP packets and transmitting them over the lab network. This will allow our Python code to communicate using the standard Internet sockets package, rather than PySerial, PyNut, etc.
the docking station arrived today and I delivered it to the lab. I left it laying next to the particle counter in the electronics rack. |