@Corona1: No I’ve not. I have the minipro. If timing were different at the time then I would definitely have got the HIPro. Because it’s the real thing. The minipro works great of course. Com ports often have to be fiddled with for the minipro too. @alpine1 is the only person I know of in my time here and somewhat recently that has made all this work. He has chimed in here. His actual end problem was something else but he got the cables and all working.
@rik.rod.business: Ok. It’s the Prolific chip and you see it. That’s something. When you disconnect it does it go away from device manager? But no mention of null modem on the product or packaging. The com port is probably fine. You could try changing it to 1 or 2. But I seem to recall the hipro/minipro type devices should work with 1-4.
In that device manager does it seem to be showing as fine? Or is there a little yellow exclamation about it?
Then there’s pinouts of all the different cables you have going on. Which is why I would strongly suggest getting the connection down to just the one cable.
As for lights…who knows? Consult your instructions or find them online to see what lights are supposed to do what.
Looking at the manual for the drivers for that product might point to incompatibility with your version of Windows. The manual shows a version of the chip and what OS it can work on. But if it is a problem then it should show the yellow exclamation I mentioned. You’d have to dig deeper to find the actual version of the chip.
From my previous post I guess I should cop to the need for another cable…the power cable. Although that seems to me to be a giant well duh. Power to the wall. USB-Serial to the computer. I was referring to connections to the computer.
Do you have any lights on the hipro?
