This is our thread for the @eth0 project on serial decoding data from the HP 1653B logic analyzer.

There isn't a clear path yet also depends on how much we want to challenge ourselves.

https://museum.dantalion.nl/item/hp-1653b-logic-analyzer

I am currently thinking, we write either a sigrok driver.

Or we even cut that short and write minimal python just create a dump that Pulseview can import.

Also depends on my friend who joins in, they might want to go hardmode and do everything from scratch.

The sigrok driver be interesting because it could be upstreamed lol. #hp1653b

Registering a new driver with libsigrok #sigrok seems easy enough

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Hardware_driver_API

There doesn't seem to be a plugin interface for hardware drivers unlike the decoder API so we forked libsigrok and are adding it straight to the source: https://github.com/Dantali0n/sla0/pull/1

Unfortunately, the pulseview git seems to be down making it very difficult to compile the whole stack git://sigrok.org/pulseview.git

HP1650B Logic Analyzer driver for RS232-C by Dantali0n · Pull Request #1 · Dantali0n/sla0

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Progress is being made, we have a USB serial driver!

It does nothing yet though

Our progress stranded on the inability to construct a D25 to D9 adapter for the serial interface. We will continue at some other time with better equipment.
Hardware to construct a Db25 to Db9 adapter for the HP1653B has been bought.
Here we go time to make that Db25 to Db9 rs232 adapter
Data received! It isn't sending any back yet though mmh

These posts haven't been getting any traction and so I fear its just noise for people who follow me.

This will be the last one, you can use #RSS on https://dantalion.nl to get notified when I write a full blog post and the project is done.

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@dantalion for what it's worth I see them, read them, and look through them. The reality is Fosstodon is just extremely low engagement -- especially during European time zones. Stacking niches and with the controversies this place can be the grave yard of ideas if you're using it for metrics.

@atro That super nice you read them.

Its not really about engagement though, its more that it appears every reply to yourself in a thread appears in the timeline of all your followers (back at the top), so its quite noisy I found out.

The project will continue.