Excel Serial Port Communication
Excel VBA Serial Comm. Without using MS Comm Control component - modComm.vbs. Excel VBA Serial Comm. Without using MS Comm Control component - modComm.vbs. Skip to content. All gists Back to GitHub. I need to read data from the serial port to excel as input for further VBA code. I am new to VBA thus many of the above mentioned lines of code. Accessing SERIAL Port from Excel VBA; Serial I/O using VBA - Sample Code - Files Uploaded; VBA to use unique password using volume serial number; Serial port; SERIAL PORT COMMUNICATION; serial port access; Serial port comunication with Excel; scan all ports to get all free ports and used ports; Excel VBA application: Porting to Visual Studio 2005? There is a dll available on the net called inpout32.dll which can be used to communicate with the serial or parallel port. I would be interested to know how you go about with your project and what kind of device you are trying to control?
I need to create a button in Excel to read data in from serial port. I can't have any extra files attached to the excel sheet. I need to transfer this excel file to another computer to read this data. Here is how the file is suppose to function: Press button to select the serial port. Then, press another button to read data from serial port into the excel cell. Could someone please tell me how to do this? Use VB macro or ActiveX macro? Sorry, this is the first time i'm using excel for this. Help please. Again, I can't have another file attached to the excel sheet. Thank you!
Excel Vba Serial Port Communication
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I found a discussion on exactly this topic in the german microcontroler.net forum here:
Since I am running on Linux I can not verify if the code is correct. Anyway, here is a copy of it:
Udo KleinUdo Kleinprotected by Zoe the transgirlSep 20 at 16:38
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When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away inside it, which can, with a little coding, be used to send and receive data over your serial port. The scripting language is called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and it has been a part of Microsoft’s Office suite since 1993. Since then, it has evolved into a powerful (if sometimes frustrating) language that offers a subset of the features from Visual Basic.
It can be a useful tool. Imagine, for instance, that you are logging data from an instrument that has a serial port (or even an emulated one over USB). With a bit of VBA, you could create a spreadsheet that talks to the instrument directly, grabbing the data and processing it as required straight into the spreadsheet. It’s a handy trick that I have used myself several times, and [Maurizio] does a nice job of explaining how the code works, and how to integrate this code into Excel.
Excel 2010 Vba Serial Port Communication
If you’re looking for other ways to leverage this Excel feature, consider watching movies at work or building a virtual machine inside of your sheets.