Writing to serial port from linux command line. From windows I can communicate with a serial port device using following commands: Device starts the requested operation. When I try to accomplish the same operation from a stand alone debian box or from a debian virtualbox instance of the same windows machine, I had no luck so far. Nothing happens. Opening a serial port in Linux is accomplished by using the open system call and closing the serial port is done using the close system call. The open system call takes two arguments,name of the file to be opened (here serial port ) and the various parameters associated with it.It returns a -1 on failure and a positive integer on success. It is serial port 2 (- /dev/ttymxc2) on APF51; it is debug serial port 0 (- /dev/ttyAM0 (2.6.35 kernel) or /dev/ttyAMA0 (3.x kernels)) on APF28; So, without software modifications, this port is not available to connect a MODEM or any other RS-232 device. If you want to use it as a normal serial port on Linux then: be sure that your device won. On Linux, I want to send a command string (i.e. Adobe reader 10.0 free download. Some data) to a serial port (containing control characters), and listen to the response (which also usually might contain control characters). How can I do this as simplest as possible on Linux? An example is appreciated! This is a step-by-step guide to using the serial port from a program running under Linux; it was written for the Raspberry Pi serial port with the Raspbian Wheezy distribution. However, the same code should work on other systems.
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I know this question is scattered all over the internet, but still, nothing is getting me completely there yet. I want to write data to a serial port in C++ (linux) for a a Propeller board. Program works fine when taking input from the console, but when I write strings to it always return:
ERROR - Invalid command
from the device. I tried creating array of char
with Hex values then it worked. here's a working code, below. But how will i be able to just provide a string variable of command and send it to the serial port? perhaps, how do you I convert it to hex values if it's the only way? Thanks everyone
note: the loop is to use user input from console. What i need is a way to send a string variable to the serial port.
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I'm happy to solve my own solution but yet disappointed to not have seen the trivial matter much sooner.
char
by default are signed
in c++, which makes it holding the range -128 to 127. However, we are expecting the ASCII values which are 0 to 255. Hence it's as simple as declaring it to be unsigned char str[]
and everything else should work. Silly me, Silly me.
Still, Thank you everyone for helping me!!!
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Are you sure you should end with 'r'? When entering text from console the return key will result in a 'n' character (on Linux) and not 'r'
Also error checking is missing on most functions (
open()
, fcntl()
, etc.). Maybe one of these functions fail. To find out how to check for errors read the man page (for example man 2 open
for the open()
command. In case of open()
the man page explains it returns -1 when it could not open the file/port.
After your edit you wrote:
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which is wrong.
rve
strlen
expects a '0' terminated string which str is obviously not so now it sends your data and whatever there is in memory until it sees a '0'. You need to add 0x00
to your str
array.
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Linux Bash Write To Serial Port
/**/ |
/* Serial Port Programming in C (Serial Port Write) */ |
/* Non Cannonical mode */ |
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
/* Program writes a character to the serial port at 9600 bps 8N1 format */ |
/* Baudrate - 9600 */ |
/* Stop bits -1 */ |
/* No Parity */ |
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
/* Compiler/IDE : gcc 4.6.3 */ |
/* Library : */ |
/* Commands : gcc -o serialport_write serialport_write.c */ |
/* OS : Linux(x86) (Linux Mint 13 Maya)(Linux Kernel 3.x.x) */ |
/* Programmer : Rahul.S */ |
/* Date : 21-December-2014 */ |
/**/ |
/**/ |
/* Running the executable */ |
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
/* 1) Compile the serialport_read.c file using gcc on the terminal (without quotes) */ |
/**/ |
/* ' gcc -o serialport_write serialport_write.c ' */ |
/**/ |
/* 2) Linux will not allow you to access the serial port from user space,you have to be root.So use */ |
/* 'sudo' command to execute the compiled binary as super user. */ |
/**/ |
/* 'sudo ./serialport_write' */ |
/**/ |
/**/ |
/**/ |
/* Sellecting the Serial port Number on Linux */ |
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
/* /dev/ttyUSBx - when using USB to Serial Converter, where x can be 0,1,2..etc */ |
/* /dev/ttySx - for PC hardware based Serial ports, where x can be 0,1,2..etc */ |
/**/ |
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
/* termios structure - /usr/include/asm-generic/termbits.h */ |
/* use 'man termios' to get more info about termios structure */ |
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/ |
#include<stdio.h> |
#include<fcntl.h>/* File Control Definitions */ |
#include<termios.h>/* POSIX Terminal Control Definitions */ |
#include<unistd.h>/* UNIX Standard Definitions */ |
#include<errno.h>/* ERROR Number Definitions */ |
voidmain(void) |
{ |
int fd;/*File Descriptor*/ |
printf('n +----------------------------------+'); |
printf('n | Serial Port Write |'); |
printf('n +----------------------------------+'); |
/*------------------------------- Opening the Serial Port -------------------------------*/ |
/* Change /dev/ttyUSB0 to the one corresponding to your system */ |
fd = open('/dev/ttyUSB0',O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY); /* ttyUSB0 is the FT232 based USB2SERIAL Converter */ |
/* O_RDWR Read/Write access to serial port */ |
/* O_NOCTTY - No terminal will control the process */ |
/* O_NDELAY -Non Blocking Mode,Does not care about- */ |
/* -the status of DCD line,Open() returns immediatly */ |
if(fd -1) /* Error Checking */ |
printf('n Error! in Opening ttyUSB0 '); |
else |
printf('n ttyUSB0 Opened Successfully '); |
/*---------- Setting the Attributes of the serial port using termios structure --------- */ |
struct termios SerialPortSettings; /* Create the structure */ |
tcgetattr(fd, &SerialPortSettings); /* Get the current attributes of the Serial port */ |
cfsetispeed(&SerialPortSettings,B9600); /* Set Read Speed as 9600 */ |
cfsetospeed(&SerialPortSettings,B9600); /* Set Write Speed as 9600 */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag &= ~PARENB; /* Disables the Parity Enable bit(PARENB),So No Parity */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag &= ~CSTOPB; /* CSTOPB = 2 Stop bits,here it is cleared so 1 Stop bit */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag &= ~CSIZE; /* Clears the mask for setting the data size */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag |= CS8; /* Set the data bits = 8 */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS; /* No Hardware flow Control */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_cflag |= CREAD | CLOCAL; /* Enable receiver,Ignore Modem Control lines */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_iflag &= ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY); /* Disable XON/XOFF flow control both i/p and o/p */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_iflag &= ~(ICANON | ECHO | ECHOE | ISIG); /* Non Cannonical mode */ |
SerialPortSettings.c_oflag &= ~OPOST;/*No Output Processing*/ |
if((tcsetattr(fd,TCSANOW,&SerialPortSettings)) != 0) /* Set the attributes to the termios structure*/ |
printf('n ERROR ! in Setting attributes'); |
else |
printf('n BaudRate = 9600 n StopBits = 1 n Parity = none'); |
/*------------------------------- Write data to serial port -----------------------------*/ |
char write_buffer[] = 'A'; /* Buffer containing characters to write into port */ |
int bytes_written = 0; /* Value for storing the number of bytes written to the port */ |
bytes_written = write(fd,write_buffer,sizeof(write_buffer));/* use write() to send data to port */ |
/* 'fd' - file descriptor pointing to the opened serial port */ |
/* 'write_buffer' - address of the buffer containing data */ |
/* 'sizeof(write_buffer)' - No of bytes to write */ |
printf('n%s written to ttyUSB0',write_buffer); |
printf('n%d Bytes written to ttyUSB0', bytes_written); |
printf('n +----------------------------------+nn'); |
close(fd);/* Close the Serial port */ |
} |
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