[Openicc] X-RITE RM400 interface protocol

[Hal V. Engel]

On Sunday 01 June 2008 12:11:00 Bob Safranek wrote:
>   Does anyone know if there is a public description of the interface
> protocol for
>   the X-RITE RM400 Spectrophotometer?
>
>   Even better would be an open source library to talk to it.
>
>   Thanks!
>   --bob

The specifications say :

"Interface: RS-232 serial interface with baud rates from 1200 to 19.2K 
communication via RCI commands Interface"

All of the pre-merger X-Rite devices used "RCI commands" which is the protocol 
for the device.  At one time the documents that covered these were available 
to anyone who was an X-Rite regisitered developer (there are at least two on 
this list).  But the last time I asked X-Rite for an RCI document for another 
device (DTP-41B) I go no response from them at all.  I do have RCI documents 
for the DTP-20 and the DTP-92/94 series devices.  

In addition there is a lot of RCI related code in the ArgyllCMS meter support 
libraries for a number of other devices that could serve as an augmentation to 
whatever you might find elsewhere.  For most of these devices the vast 
majority of the protcol is the same.  But there are minor differnces from 
device to device mostly with things related to initalization and of course 
differences related to the capabilities of the device.  This device appears to 
be a simple spot reading meter (IE. no strip reading capabilities) and I would 
guess that it's command set is very similar to the DTP-22 which is supported 
by the ArgyllCMS meter code.

In any case you should contact X-Rite support and ask them for the RCI 
document for the device.  With that documentation in hand if should be 
possible to clone and modify one of the existing RCI based interfaces in the 
ArgyllCMS meter code to handle this device.  But you should expect this to 
take a significant amount of effort.

Hal
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