[Swansea Hackspace] you have probably seen this

[Tim Moore]

For the record, I think picocom  fixes the problem at a stroke  (I hope)

once installed this cryptic line does it all

picocom /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 9600 -l

Note     l   = lower case L

http://freecode.com/projects/picocom/

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Setting_up_Minicom_in_Ubuntu

(brilliant ! )

:  ))

Tim_2




On 26 November 2014 at 22:31, Tim Moore <timmoore47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the record, the Arduino 'ADD' option was used on installation of the
> Arduino IDE and it worked fine on selecting the serial board ttyUSB0 at
> 9600 baud.
>
> the CR+NewLine option worked well to.
>
> It would not go faster than 9600 baud.
>
> However it solved the problem immediately !
>
> Many many thanks !
>
> :  )))
>
> Tim_1
>
> On 26 November 2014 at 22:04, Tim Moore <timmoore47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Many thanks Justin ! Greatly appreciated !
>>
>> I'll try the arduino first as it seems friendly !
>>
>> :  ))))
>>
>> Tim_1
>>
>> On 26 November 2014 at 21:19, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 21:14 +0000, Tim Moore wrote:
>>> > OT but I'm trying to get my usb serial port to send and receive data
>>> > using minicom or cutecom.  Using Ubuntu 14.04
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I seem to think selling it that 'ttyUSB0' does the trick but nothing
>>> > I've tied works.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I've connected TX and RX together so what I type get reflected back.
>>>
>>> Depending on the brand it will either be /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyACM0
>>> look at the end of the 'dmesg' command to see what device it was
>>> assigned when it was plugged in (replug if necessary).
>>>
>>> you will also need permission on the device, i dont know about that
>>> ubuntu specifically but if you do an 'ls -l' on the device file you will
>>> usually find its in group 'dialout' or 'uucp'
>>>
>>> which ever it is, add your username to that group in /etc/group
>>> when you login again yu should now have write permission to those files.
>>>
>>> check to see if ModemManager is running, if it is ypu need to kill it,
>>> and disable/uninstall it somehow, it is a bit dumb and assumes that all
>>> serial ports have modems on the end of them, grabs the serial port and
>>> shoves AT commands down it, so kill it off.
>>>
>>> with all those fixed you should have more luck
>>> you can also use the 'serial monitor' feature inside the arduino editor,
>>> it doesnt have to be an arduino connected, its just a serial terminal
>>> program.
>>>
>>>
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