hello rescue team, a couple of days ago I have purchased the polar heart Rate Monitor interface from sparkfun. I was spoiled untill now to be able to plug things in and find preprogrammed patches to make thinks work. Now I sat down and failed to make this thing work over the serial object.

I had this information: (from another client, who apparently made it work with max/msp) 1 - set the raw mode: S+0+CR (ascii commands) 2 - get the heart rate data: G+1+CR (id.) as fast as possible (every 60ms is fine for me) 3 - then you get 3 values from the hrmi: status byte, count and heart rate. ____________________________________________________ and (this general information from the product page)

Get Heart Rate Data ASCII Command Value: G Hex Command Value: 0x47 Command Argument: Number of heart rate history buffer entries 0-32 Response: 2 - 34 8-bit values Description: Get the specified number of heart rate values and status information from the heart rate history buffer.

Set Mode ASCII Command Value: S Hex Command Value: 0x53 Command Argument: 3 bit mode Response: - Description: Set the heart rate algorithm and optionally set the power-on defaults for heart rate algorithm and Utility port direction and value

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this is my patch, which doesn´t work!! Why? why? can anyone help me to get this godmanfrzxklicks thing working? please? thanx a million, dan