Err… if you're trying to approach the problem, the onus is on you to come up with options?
I'm not going to preclude you from being creative and coming up with a zero-cost solution that somehow magically does all this, but personally speaking I'd say the chances are minute and it's not worth my time.
I'm also not gonna try to stop you from building that thing you originally suggested, with the 8P8C or 10P10C connector and strapping pins and autodetection and whatnot, I'm just pointing out to you the issues I think it will run into. You're free to ignore my concerns. I'm a random commenter on the internet.
P.S.: calling it DTE-DCE auto detection signals to me that you haven't done a lot of work in this field; those terms are not in common use for TTL serial. People in the field would probably call it something like "TX/RX swap". (Hard to say, since it doesn't really exist.) Maybe you're an engineer for field buses or something like that though…
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> I'm open to other options,
Err… if you're trying to approach the problem, the onus is on you to come up with options?
I'm not going to preclude you from being creative and coming up with a zero-cost solution that somehow magically does all this, but personally speaking I'd say the chances are minute and it's not worth my time.
I'm also not gonna try to stop you from building that thing you originally suggested, with the 8P8C or 10P10C connector and strapping pins and autodetection and whatnot, I'm just pointing out to you the issues I think it will run into. You're free to ignore my concerns. I'm a random commenter on the internet.
P.S.: calling it DTE-DCE auto detection signals to me that you haven't done a lot of work in this field; those terms are not in common use for TTL serial. People in the field would probably call it something like "TX/RX swap". (Hard to say, since it doesn't really exist.) Maybe you're an engineer for field buses or something like that though…