Generic ASCII Serial

[Russell]

We would like to use an iX controller with our GPS receiver. While the unit has Standard NMEA 0183 outputs it also has a number of custom outputs, and requires NMEA like inputs to configure its functions.
The data can be on either a serial port or Ethernet socket.
Can we expand the existing NMEA 0183 driver, or is there a genetic serial data driver that we can use to send and receive complete strings, then parse them in the iX device.

[mark.monroe]

You can not modify the iX drivers. You can write your own communication protocol however. Look at this post on how to use C# to communicate to your peripheral using Ethernet or serial.