Control Epson TW700 (Projector) with RS-232 in EG.

[MrNilsson]

Hello everyone.

I'm new on this forum, even thought I've been using EG for some time now, everything has worked like a charm with XBMC and Tellstick Duo this far and I really love this program, so thank you all for you contribute making this possible (home automation)!

The time has come to go one step further in my home cinema project, to send commands for ON / OFF / SOURCE to my projector.
I've bought a USB to RS-232 converter and made my own RS-232C cable (with pin 2 and 3 swapped).

When I connect to the projector using Putty, I can fully control theese commands
PWR ON
PWR OFF
SOURCE xx (xx is numbers for different inputs)

But I can't get these to work in EG user the Serieport plugin, and I can't seem to find any plugin for epson products to EG.

Here is the link to the manual: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pltw1_/pltw1_cm.pdf

Would love all help I can get, since I've been trying with a dead end for 3 days staright here. :/


Best Regards
Richard Nilsson
Sweden

[Labbetass]

I'm sure you have figured this out by now, but I'll post a possible solution in case other users needs to know.

You have to use python escape string \r at the end of the command, like this:

PWR OFF\r

This simulates the ENTER button.

[MrNilsson]

I'm sure you have figured this out by now, but I'll post a possible solution in case other users needs to know.

You have to use python escape string \r at the end of the command, like this:

PWR OFF\r

This simulates the ENTER button.

Actually, I haven't figured it out yet. Thank you for your reply, I will try this out and come back with the results. Don't go anywhere, I'm sure that I will need some guidence here.


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