Even I used the analyzer tool as is for a long time I thought it’s time to polish-it to look more like a professional tool so here is the improved version with added features. Still in tests, I would really need some testers since some of the devices supported were never tested due the lack … More ccTalk tutorial, ccTalk bus decoder/analyzer part 2
The coin value from the previous example might not apply in some jurisdictions. The complete table for coin values can be found in ccTalk documentation part 3 page 13. How to handle such a large range of values? The simplest and fastest option for a quick design is to skip the coin value reading and … More ccTalk tutorial, ccTalk on Arduino nano part 4, more about coin ID values
This time I will use the previous code to setup, run the coin acceptor and listen for coin inserted and events. For the hardware setup and software used see the last two posts. A link to the source code can be found at the bottom of the page. Later edit, please rename the folder containing … More ccTalk tutorial, ccTalk on Arduino nano part 3 coin acceptor example
Most things in our world are requiring multitasking. Let’s take a token dispenser or changer with a bill acceptor and a hopper. We can make this work without much multitasking like this: Enable the bill acceptor and listen for bills inserted If a bill is inserted take the bill and disable the bill acceptor Start … More ccTalk tutorial, ccTalk on Arduino nano part 2
For some time I was thinking to show an example using a micro-controller board still not sure which one to use. Following Jordy’s comment I decided that Arduino is the easiest ready made board to use and very popular, cheap and easy to find everywhere even I don’t have much experience with Arduino and it … More ccTalk tutorial, ccTalk on Arduino nano part 1
Happy New Year everybody! This time I made an example of driving both a bill and a coin acceptor in the same time on the same ccTalk line , the zipped source code can be found on my Google Drive . You can find explanations in the source code,but there is no error handling , … More ccTalk tutorial, bill and coin acceptor ccTalk host software in Visual Basic with source code
This is a very simple host made in Visual Basic 2008 , I know , I’m old fashioned , I still using XP. As is, the program is using COM4 for the ccTalk cable and COM7 for output text messages for each coin event. You can find the source on my Google Drive . All … More ccTalk tutorial , a simple ccTalk coin acceptor host with Visual Basic source code
I made a video to show the usage of the software published in the previous post. You can test your cctalk host software without a real device , the timing is not good for some headers but still is a good tool to start with. As host software I used SeciCCTalk because it’s the only … More ccTalk tutorial , using the software coin acceptor emulator to test your software
In designing a generic coin acceptor ccTalk host it’s usefull to see which headers are implemented in various coin acceptors.You can find in the table below headers relevant for a coin acceptor for some common products. The recommended minimum acceptable implementation requires the following headers to be implemented: Core commands: 254 Simple poll 245 Request … More ccTalk tutorial – comparison table , headers implemented in various coin acceptors
So , now we know each coin position and value 4. Check coin acceptor health with header 232 – “Perform self-check” , no data field is required. Send 2 0 1 232 21 , the acceptor answers 1 1 2 0 0 252 , data field is zero ,that means no error. If not , … More ccTalk tutorial , same tests with a coin acceptor part 2
Now let’s make same tests with a coin acceptor. On my bench I have an old SR3 from Moneycontrols. There are some differences from bill acceptor handling but they work pretty much in the same way: See if a coin acceptor is connected Read some info about it Find the number and type of coins … More ccTalk tutorial , same tests with a coin acceptor part 1
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