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Hi All,
Recently I needed to interact between my own software and Freestyler.
So I decided to dive into the TCP / ASCII protocol and wrote a C# client which can be used to control Freestyler.
It is a little bit quick and dirty but for what's worth, I've put the code on Github:
https://github.com/matthijsderidder/FreeStyler .
I've released it under the MIT license, so it means you can basically do anything with it you would like.
I provide it "as is" but feel free to extend.
Best Regards!

Cheers for sharing!

You're welcome!

Currently I'm updating / extending the Client.
I'm also working on a WinForms Test App and a WinForms Control Library with some default controls.

I was wondering how to deal with the responses from FreeStyler. After sending a command or request there is a continuously 0xFF byte, I assume this is something like a heartbeat which tells that FS is still "alive".
Even after disconnecting the client (right click at icon in FS and select "Disconnect All"), the TCP Connection remains open.

While sending a request command, I'm not sure how to recognize a response e.g. when requesting button captions and states sometimes It results in the buttons obtaining the state (0 or 1) as caption, I think because my parser misses the button captions and recognizes the button states as captions.

So, how is the send / receive process intended?
Only receive data after sending a request or use a continuous loop which runs as long as the connection is open, but if this is the case, how do I know what response I receive (is it a list of captions or a list of button states).

And last question: The button states, do I have to poll for the states, so if something in FS changes, I receive the change or is there a call / package from FS to my software which tells me that something has changed and needs to be updated?

Best Regards!

The best person to answer this is the developer you may be best to pop it onto the bug tracker to get his attention

Thanks!

I assume that's @lj_raph right?
I'll post this question onto the bug tracker.

Best regards!