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Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
Hi,
I've written a driver to allow Arena, LucasChess and Shredder to use DGT boards without using the Rabbit Plugin (so that LucasChess on Linux can also use DGT boards): https://www.schachcomputer.info/foru...ead.php?t=6448 It seems to be working OK with DGT boards and the DGT 3000 clock, but I'm hoping it will also work with Revelation boards and the DGT XL clock. If you use any of those GUIs and have a Revelation II, or a DGT board and a DGT XL clock, could you please try out my program and let me know how you get on? I'm more confident of the XL working than the Revelation though! https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php#dgt Many thanks! |
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Re: Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
Hi,
I've written a driver to allow Arena, LucasChess and Shredder to use DGT boards without using the Rabbit Plugin (so that LucasChess on Linux can also use DGT boards): https://www.schachcomputer.info/foru...ead.php?t=6448 It seems to be working OK with DGT boards and the DGT 3000 clock, but I'm hoping it will also work with Revelation boards and the DGT XL clock. If you use any of those GUIs and have a Revelation II, or a DGT board and a DGT XL clock, could you please try out my program and let me know how you get on? I'm more confident of the XL working than the Revelation though! https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php#dgt Many thanks! Thank you Luigi |
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AW: Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
You are right that it takes a little time to connect. With the Certabo, they use a specific type of serial port driver that (in Windows) I can identify and connect to. For the other boards I need to search through all the serial ports to find which one has the board. So 'Auto' is really quick for Certabo and quite slow for the others. All the best. |
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AW: Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
Hi Graham,
sorry for the late answer. But I was "on the way" the last days. Now I tested again some games with LucasChess on my Rev II. - connection to the Rev II needs about 1 minute, while on my Certabo board it needs just a couple of seconds - the display of the Rev II shows time and moves correct, if I play without time control, a brace {} shows, which side is on the move - take back works also fine without need of pushing a button in the software - today I had a little problem with the detection of the pieces, that's absolutely new for me on the Rev II. Up to now the piece detection worked great, no matter, which modus I used: the internal engines, the Retroemulation or the BT-modus with Picochess or with Fritz on the Windows-PC. I never had problems until now. But with LucasChess using your driver, sometimes it works not correct, so sometimes it doesn't detect the move and I have to repeat the move again (put the piece back and move again), And just now I wanted to start a new game and the driver said "pieces are not correct", so I had to place every pieces again new on its place, than it worked fine again so, in principle it works fine, but the piece detection has sometimes a little problem
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AW: Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
Hi Tobias,
Thank you for testing this! Unfortunately "sometimes it doesn't work" is very hard to fix, much harder than "when I do this...it fails like this..."! Given the very long time to connect and that most of the time it works OK I think the problem is in the actual communication with the board. I saw in Picochess that when connecting to a BT board they seem to close the COM port connection and pair using BT commands. Perhaps this is why. I'll look into it but I'm not sure if I can do anything without having my own board to experiment with. All the best. |
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AW: Revelation II or DGT XL user wanted!
Hi Graham,
I understand, but up to now, I cannot find any special situation, when the problem appears. If I find so, I will tell you. Next time I am very busy again, so if I find time, I will also try the driver in Shredder instead LucasChess, seeing if the problem appears here to.
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Gruß Tobias |
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