Re: Phone auto-detection

>Firstly see if you can talk to all the ports in parallel (ie
>use multiple threads) otherwise things get quite slow.

I was thinking about that but haven't had a chance yet.

>In the short term you could also set the timeout to one second
>instead of the default 3

It is currently set to 1 (that was one of the first things I changed).  Not sure if that actually has any effects.  Will verify it.

>The code seems to believe it can send AT commands at anything

That's what it does now.

>seems to wait an infinite amount of time for responses.

commport should have timed out, not sure what happened there.

>I'd recommend filtering the list of com ports first and
>only send AT commands to modem devices 

Will try that.

>It is a good idea to put something in the log since users
>won't see the console output.

It currently prints messages to the console.  Will redirect that and other messages to the log display.

>You should also only grab the list of ports that at least
>one phone module has in its auto-detection list.

You mean like a union of likely ports of all phone modules?

-Joe Pham



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