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Addition:Sebastian, my hunch at the moment is that the port does not even get initiated. I think the problem at the moment is that the respective error messages are only logged, but no informative error message is thrown (check the log files). That means that actually somehow the port drivers cannot be accessed on your system for some reason.In the Coder Shell type from psychopy import parallel and then do next port = parallel.ParallelPort() (no address). Now just type port and paste the output here. My guess is that you only get the base class (ParallelPort) with which you cannot do anything, i.e., something like . In that case, you would need to fix access to the drivers somehow.
I'm gong to back Axel's "hunch" here. I think it's extremely likely that either you don't have a parallel port driver installed or it isn't working. Try installing the InpOut32 driver from here, restart your computer and see if that fixes it:
I own a PCG10/8016 function generator and PCS500 scope that I would like to use with my newer computers running 64-bit vista or windows 7. I know the devices are no longer produced and adding support is not high on the priority list but I have found a updated 64-bit compatible version of DLPortIO that I was hoping it might be added to the next version of PcLab2000SE.
I have tried using the 64-bit drivers listed above by copying the new x64 driver dll and sys to the windows\system32\drivers, windows\system32, and pclab2000se folders also I have tried renaming the 64 bit driver dll and sys to DLPortIO.DLL DLPortIO.SYS in the windows and velleman folder with no luck. I could very easily be doing something wrong.
Hello,
this is on Windows 10 64bit. I try to read from the parallel port. That worked with PsychoPy2 but
today I tried to run a v1.84 program with Psychopy 3.0.7 and 3.1.5 with no luck. The code is as follows:
I know for sure that a parallel port driver is installed since I can communicate with the port with the help of a little C-program I wrote for testing (some years ago Any idea why PsychoPy3 thinks the driver is not installed?
I found the problem parallel port with windows 10 after install labview 2016. Labview can't detect parallel port and I think cviVXDWrapper.dll is a problem. Please see images in attach file and give me a piece of advice.
Cameras like the SBIG ST-7E used a parallel port to communicate. The biggest problem is drivers. People have used older XP systems which is 32 bit. You may be hard pressed to find any drivers that will work with the new 64bit operating systems we have now.
The old SBIG parallel port cameras ... more specifically the Windows drivers they depend on, need direct access to the parallel port registers. This means the inexpensive USB to Parallel Port adapters that are commonly found will not work with these cameras.
I had a parallel port ST8i. It's exactly as skyguy stated. Either find an old PC or laptop with a parallel port, or IIRC I was able to use a PCIe parallel card on a PC. But a USB adapter will definitely not work.
Years ago I was able to run the parallel-port ST8i on a PC running Windows 10 (and on another running Win7), and in fact was also using a parallel ST-5C as the guider (one on the native LPT, one on a PCI card). But it had to be 32-bit Windows as the old legacy driver for parallel-port would not support 64-bit.
SBIG clearly states in an Application Note that their parallel port cameras can be used in a 32-bit OS computer with a plug-in card that emulates a legacy Parallel Port. The card must be designated as the LPT1 port and the computer's parallel ports must be enabled. In Windows 7, go to the Port Settings tab and click on Enable legacy Plug and Play detection.
SBIG recommended and tested the "Quatech SPP-100 LPT" PCMCIA card and the "Best Connectivity SD-EXP50021" Express card. However, these cards are no longer available, but the one I referenced from Amazon in a previous post has be reported to work with the SBIG parallel port cameras.
Does anybody have it working on Windows 7 x64? I had DosBox running my software perfectly with the parallel port using the Megabuild 6 and porttalk drivers with an XP 32-bit pc, but now I'm trying to do the exact same thing with Windows 7 x64 and it seems that the porttalk service fails to start.
Yes, I've seen that and I am jealous. It does not work for me and did not on XP box as well. This is a Hardlock E-Y-E dongle, I'm not sure if some other types of parallel port dongles play better or if its dependent on host hardware addressing, or what.
In my case it's the parallel port on my motherboard, set to EPP in the BIOS because it's recommended for an old flash writer I sometimes use and not because my printer cares one way or the other, and the Windows port driver is using the default "never use an interrupt, no legacy PnP" settings. AFAIK, the effectiveness of the "parallel1=file dev:lpt1" setting has only been seen for normal printing, not for security dongles.
No, its not a USB adapter, its a real 0x378 LPT1 port. I've already verified that the parallel port and dongle works with this software if I boot the PC directly into DOS from a USB (works very poorly but does work).
You can toggle parallel port outputs on or off by clicking on the circle representing the pin you want to change. Green represents on (high), black represents off (low). The circles representing input pins are automatically updated while you have the port selected, so you can easily test your inputs. You can also choose whether to use the four control pins as inputs or outputs.
For people who are really interested, I also display the raw register values of the three standard parallel port registers. I show separate values for the control register because what you write to the control register is not guaranteed to be what you read back.
I have been trying to equip my Win 7 64 PC to run some old Analog Devices software that wants to communicate with an eval card via a parallel port. I installed a Rosewill RC303 PP PCI card which seems to function Ok, but it puts the port address up at 0xD030. Your Parallel Port Tester finds it and I can toggle all the pins. Thanks for a great piece of software. However the AD softwate does not seem to be able to deal with the non standard port address. I installed Windows Virtual Machine and their XP OS for it. Under XP running virtual the port appears at 378h according to the Device Manager but the AD software still does not find the port.
Hi Doug,
I tried to run the program on my Win XP 32-bit machine but get the error parallel port tester has encountered an error and needs to close. I have put the recommended 32-bit InpOut32.dll in the program directory.
Any ideas?
I have tried your parallel port tester and it works great.
I would like to read/write from the port(0378h) using an assembly language subroutine which would be callable from higher level programs. Can you tell me the calling sequence and argument arrangement for Inpout32 or is that only available in C?
Joe
I seem to be having a small issue. For some reason, my parallel port seems to default pin4 (data bit 2) to a high state. Not sure if this is related to your software at all, but was wondering if you could help out? Everytime I start up my computer and open up the program and identify my parallel port address, pin 4 is defaulted to high, but I would like it to be defaulted to a low. Any ideas?
Basically there are three byte registers (for example, at 0x3000, 0x3001, and 0x3002 if the parallel port base address is 0x3000). Register 0 is the data register, register 1 is the status register, and register 2 is the control register. You have to do whatever your OS requires to do direct port access. I use InpOut32. Here is what I do when bitbanging:
Your neat program works fine on the Legacy port of my Dell win 7 64bit machine. But does not work when I install and run the PC with a Lava Dual parallel port PCI card. There is no response to either ports. I tried it on 2 cards the last one was from a new old stock sealed card.
The device manger indicates
Thank you for your LPT tester. It has been very helpful. However, I had a couple of questions regarding the same. After selecting the port, I use the output buttons to change a particular pin. But that does not change the color of the input pins on the tester. Is that indicating of a problem with the port or the parallel port card? Additionally, one of the control buttons is only on/off halfway. Does it point towards the possibility that there may be something wrong with the port? Also, while testing the port, I had connected it to a parallel port cable. I would really appreciate your inputs.
Thank you for your prompt reply. Going by your advice, I connected two PCs with a parallel port cable to use the tester. And I changed the four control pins to output on one PC and input on the 2nd PC. When I toggle the control (output) pins on the first PC, the control (input) pins on the 2nd PC are automatically updated. However, if I toggle the other non-control (output) pins that does not reflect on the input pins of the 1st PC. Is that an issue or does that mean the port works?
Hi,
I hope you are still active. I am unable to access the parallel port diagnostic tool as the URL is unresponsive. I do have loaded the parallel port tester but I am unable to confirm if a plug n play usb to parallel cable has installed as a parallel port or just a printer port. I need full duplex so I realize I may have the wrong hardware, but can I get access to the diagnoztic software to see what hex code I need to load into the test software? Also do you know of hardware (CNC or otherwise) that replicates the duplex data flow of a traditional parallel port via usb?
The parallel port has been discontinued on PCs for many years now. It was mainly used to connect a PC to a printer. Mach3 was designed to use this port to send the step, and direction pulse to the CNC controller and receive some inputs back such as limit switches. Mach3 is still very popular in the CNC world even though there is a new more modern version Mach4.
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