Windmill Software: Serial Driver for RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 and Modbus Devices

Windmill Data Acquisition Catalogue Windmill COMIML: Serial Device Driver

Windmill COMIML: Windmill 6 with the Serial Driver

COMIML lets you read and control almost any serial device communicating over RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 or Modbus. These include such diverse equipment as electronic balances used in a laboratory, GPS receivers used in the field and data loggers used in process plant. The COMIML driver reads data from your PC's COM port, and passes it to the Windmill 6 logging, charting and display programs. You can also use other Windows software, like Excel or Access, to display and analyse the data.
Price: 145 GB pounds.

Features

Try before you buy - confirm Windmill can read your equipment before purchasing
Free, lifetime, technical support.
Very easy to set up
No programming required
Integrate up to 10 serial devices into one system
Includes the Windmill 6 logging, charting, display and output control applications
Send commands to the device and extract data from its replies.
For instruments sending messages in ASCII or binary
For equipment communicating over RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 and Modbus
No more typing data into spreadsheets - save time and eliminate errors
Can control up to 10 devices at once
For serial instruments that continually send data and those that need prompting
Quickly identify and correct errors
Control the state of the PC's COM port output lines
See the state of the COM port input lines
Full hypertext Help files
Up to 38400 baud
For Windows 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000 and XP

Optional Extras

You can expand your system by choosing any of the optional Windmill software modules, including: Graphics for process mimics; Alarm Logger for alarm alerting by telephone or over a network; Windmill Remote for data acquisition over the internet and IML Tools for programming your own Visual Basic applications. You can also integrate other types of hardware into your system using the Windmill drivers for Ethernet, GPIB, USB and ISA-bus devices.

Try Before You Buy

You enter all your serial communications settings with a program called comDebug. comDebug saves your settings in a file which is then used by the COMIML device driver. To enable you to test whether Windmill will work with your device, you can download a free copy of comDebug! To register for your free copy fill in this form.

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Free Technical Support for Life

Our software is so easy to use we offer free technical support for life. If you have a question the first places to look are in our Help files and in our FAQ. If you don't find the answer there then fill in our technical support form, fax us on +44 (0)161 833 2190 or call us on +44 (0)161 833 2782 (9 to 5 GMT or BST).

No Programming Required

Simply select your settings or type your instrument's commands: no need for any programming.

Examples of Devices that you can read with COMIML

COMIML can control both those devices that continuously output data values as though to a printer, and those that require a command message each time data values are needed. It can understand both ASCII and binary messages, and insert cyclic redundancy checks. With a flexible approach to building command strings, and parsing the received data strings to extract data values, the majority of instruments are supported. These include GPS, sonar, gas analysers, pH transmitters, power meters, titrators, particle analysers, conductivity meters and laboratory scales.

You have the freedom to mix and match equipment from many different manufacturers in many combinations. For example, serial devices from Anton Paar, Ashtec, Bruël & Kjær, Datel, Datataker, Ecom, Edge Tech, Electro Industries, Fisher, Furuno, Garmin, Horiba, Mettler Toledo, Motorola, Molyteck, Omron, Orion, Parallax, Paroscientific, Patton, Phytron, Quantum Logic, Quest Scientific, Sartorius, Siemens, Telegan, Telemecanique, Texas Instruments, Transcell and TTi have all been handled by Windmill. Many channels of data can be accepted from each instrument.

Minimum System Requirements

486 processor
8 MB RAM
VGA Graphics
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98, NT, 95 or later

Ordering

To order the COMIML driver and Windmill 6 Software suite, and start logging and charting data, click the Add to Shopping Basket button and then send your order. The software will be e-mailed to you and so there are no shipping charges. If not completely satisfied simply return the software for a full refund.

Price: 145 pounds excluding VAT (tax).
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Email: sales@windmill.co.uk, Tel: +44 161 833 2782, Fax: +44 161 833 2190

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Windmill Data Acquisition Catalogue Windmill COMIML: Serial Device Driver