2011 November | LAVA: The Source for Ports

Wireless connection to power meter

A customer writes: “So I want to connect up a power meter wirelessly over IP. It (the power meter) used to connect to a phone line, picked up a phone call, and sent data back. Here’s what I’m doing: – power meter connects to LAVA POTS-to-Ethernet box – LAVA POTS-to-Ethernet box connects to a cellular [...]

LAVA appoints Intronics as its Master European Distributor

Intronics, a stocking distributor of connectivity products and solutions located in Barnefeld, The Netherlands, has been appointed as Lava Computer MFG. Inc.’s direct trading partner and Master Distribution Partner in Europe. For years Intronics has been a Premier Distributor for LAVA in Europe, and it now becomes a European importer of lines of I/O cards [...]

Ether-Serial Links: Win 7 Embedded

LAVA now has a functioning Windows 7 Embedded install (driver and Ether-Link Manager) for Ether-Serial Links, at present in an Engineering Release only. Customers looking to use the Ether-Serial Link in a Windows 7 Embedded context will find this of interest. This release was developed for a customer who wanted to install the Ether-Serial Link [...]

New Support Ticketing System

We’ve just set up a support ticketing system to make handling your support requests MUCH easier and more effective for everyone. Now you can go online to lavalink.com/helpdesk and open your own support request. You’ll get a ticket number emailed to you that you can use to track your support issue and to communicate with [...]

Updated RS-232 Serial Ports white paper

LAVA’s white paper on RS-232 serial ports has been a popular download for years. In 26 pages, this PDF covers a great deal of what you need to know to understand and use serial ports. It discusses what a serial port is, and looks closely at RS-232 (signalling, electrical, and mechanical aspects). UARTs are defined [...]

A New Day!

For all of you out there who have been following our developments here at LAVA we’re happy to announce that we have introduce several new features on our site. In the last couple of days we’ve rolled out a brand new Help Desk System as well as a Support Forum to help assist in all [...]