Thanks for this simple, but clear, examples! I found an error in the arduino code of ”Arduino control led” and ”Reading data from sensor and printing that to computer”. In the setup the serial connection is not initialized. Copying ”Serial.begin(9600);” in setup solves it.
And for the people using python3.x: The print statement has become a function in python3, so it needs arguments, e.g. And last one serial communication needs to be encoded. This can be done by writing ”.encode” behind the variable, e.g.
Code: ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS1', 9600, timeout=1) but it is not the same, this is for te beginning of the communication, I mean, if I begin the communication and then I cut the wire, how can I know if the wire has been cut? Thank you everybody! If the other end stops communicating then there could be hundreds of reasons for it. If you have more sensors and hardware you could maybe detect why the other end has stopped, but a cut wire is a single (and probably rare) case.
If communication has stopped you could print a message on a screen, or light an LED, or sound a siren, then get a human to investigate the cause. For the other thing, take a look at the select function. It will allow you to do a non-blocking read of a serial port.
ser = serial. Serial ser. Baudrate = 19200 ser. Port = 0 ser Serial ( port = 'COM1', baudrate = 19200, bytesize = 8, parity = 'N', stopbits = 1, timeout = None, xonxoff = 0, rtscts = 0 ) ser. Open ser. IsOpen True ser. Close ser.
IsOpen False Implementing the Simulator Module So, all we have to do is create a module called fakeSerial.py that will contain. a class called Serial that can be initialized with various amount of arguments. a member variable of this class should be called name and return the name of a port. a method called write( ) which receives a string and passes it to the fake Arduino. a method called read which will read some number of bytes from the Arduino. a method called close that closes the port and make all further operations with the Arduino impossible. a method called isOpen which will return True or False depending on whether the port to the fake Arduino is opened or closed.
a method called readline that will return characters until a n is found. Below is our first attempt at building this module.
# fakeSerial.py # D. Thiebaut # A very crude simulator for PySerial assuming it # is emulating an Arduino.
# a Serial class emulator class Serial: ## init: the constructor. Many of the arguments have default values # and can be skipped when calling the constructor. Def init ( self, port = 'COM1', baudrate = 19200, timeout = 1, bytesize = 8, parity = 'N', stopbits = 1, xonxoff = 0, rtscts = 0 ): self. Name = port self. Port = port self. Timeout = timeout self. Parity = parity self.
Baudrate = baudrate self. Bytesize = bytesize self.
Stopbits = stopbits self. Xonxoff = xonxoff self. Rtscts = rtscts self. isOpen = True self. receivedData = ' self. data = 'It was the best of times. N It was the worst of times.
N ' ## isOpen # returns True if the port to the Arduino is open. False otherwise def isOpen ( self ): return self.
isOpen ## open # opens the port def open ( self ): self. isOpen = True ## close # closes the port def close ( self ): self. isOpen = False ## write # writes a string of characters to the Arduino def write ( self, string ): print ( 'Arduino got: ' + string + ' ) self. receivedData += string ## read # reads n characters from the fake Arduino. Actually n characters # are read from the string data and returned to the caller.
Def read ( self, n = 1 ): s = self. data 0: n self. data = self. data n: #print( 'read: now self.data = ', self.data ) return s ## readline # reads characters from the fake Arduino until a n is found. Def readline ( self ): returnIndex = self.
Index ( ' n ' ) if returnIndex!= - 1: s = self. data 0: returnIndex + 1 self. data = self. data returnIndex + 1: return s else: return ' ## str # returns a string representation of the serial class def str ( self ): return 'Serial( port='%s ', baudrate=%d,'% ( str ( self. IsOpen ), self. Baudrate ) + ' bytesize=%d, parity='%s ', stopbits=%d, xonxoff=%d, rtscts=%d )'% ( self. Bytesize, self.
Parity, self. Stopbits, self. Xonxoff, self. Rtscts ) Test Program Below is our test program that uses the simulator and runs the same tests we listed at the top of the page. Note that the output is the same as with a real Arduino!
# testSerialSimulator.py # D. Thiebaut # This program energizes the fakeSerial simulator using example code taken # from # # import the simulator module (it should be in the same directory as this program) import fakeSerial as serial # Example 1 from def Example1 : ser = serial. Serial ( 0 ) # open first serial port print ( ser. Name ) # check which port was really used ser. Write ( 'hello' ) # write a string ser.
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Close # close port # Example 2 from def Example2 : ser = serial. Serial ( '/dev/ttyS1', 19200, timeout = 1 ) x = ser. Read # read one byte print ( 'x = ', x ) s = ser. Read ( 10 ) # read up to ten bytes (timeout) print ( 's = ', s ) line = ser.
Readline # read a ' n' terminated line ser. Close print ( 'line = ', line ) # Example 3 from def Example3 : ser = serial. Serial ser. Baudrate = 19200 ser. Port = 0 print ( ser ) ser. Open print ( str ( ser. IsOpen ) ) ser.
Close print ( ser. IsOpen ) Example1 Example2 Example3 The output of the program is shown below: 0 Arduino got: 'hello' x = I s = t was the line = best of times. Serial( port='0', baudrate=19200, bytesize=8, parity='N', stopbits=1, xonxoff=0, rtscts=0) True False Conclusion We have developed a module that can be used as an Arduino simulator and that will mimic how an Arduino would respond to various commands. This simulator is useful for developing Python programs that will eventually communicate with Arduino hardware. The program won't have to worry about connecting hardware to the development computer until the very last step of the development process. With such a simulator the Python program can be quickly developed, debugged, and fine-tuned before connecting to the real thing.
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Ocommunity suite license key. If more sophisticated communication with the Arduino simulator is required, then the write, read and readline methods of the simulator can be modified to yield more complex behavior.
I am relatively new to raspberry and I'm trying to connect it to an Arduino using the raspberry USB. I spoke too soon. It worked for a short time. Now it is back the way it was when I reported the issue - ie not working.
I have verified that the script works one line at a time in Python console and I have also confirmed that I can send the same data back and forth between the arduino and raspberry in Minicom. Why doesn't the Python script work as expected? The script runs without error but prints a blank line (line feed) instead of the expected result. I have fitted an LED on the arduino which flashes when receiving data from raspberry. It flashes as expected when I run the python script from raspberry with the ser.write statement. Looks (here ) like the open is not required.
Can you verify what exactly the Arduino returns as reponse (especially is there a newline character included)? And how fast does it respond? And might be worth checking the communication speed is the correct one. As read reads only one byte, it's most likely not the best choice - readline expects a newline at end of line, but with the timeout defined when opening the port should work (returns when newline read or timed out) - maybe try a bit longer timeout in case Arduino is slow to respond. I'm not sure what Arduino you've got, but you may find that opening the serial port is causing it to reset - and for a time (500ms or more) after reset the Arduino bootloader will be running, not your temperature-reading sketch.
If you're typing things in at the console, you won't notice this because the bootloader will have finished before you got to read anything. So I'd try putting a time.sleep(2.0), after you've opened the port, before you try to talk to your sketch. If that helps, you may find the time delay can be reduced, depending on what bootloader you've got. Also, you may find you need to call flushInput on the serial port at the start, to discard old data left lying about in the buffers by whatever was running previously. Hi, i have raspberry pi zero w and am working with SIM800l. My problem is i have connected sim800l with pi zero using gpio pins (2 pin-5v, 6 pin-gnd,8 pin-RX of sim800l & 10pin-TX of sim800l) and able to send/receive sms and calls using minicom AT commands. Now, i have to run AT commands using python code.
I have tried this code for 1 AT command as AT: import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS0', 115200, timeout=5) ser.write('AT r') response = ser.read(2) print response ser.close Problem is code is running without error but there is no response for AT. There should be OK response i should get but unable to get it. I have tried r n in ser.write also ser.readline but no use whats the problem?? Thank you for help. Display posts from previous: Sort.
Hi, I use the pyserial to read data from a serial port. My code is in window Xp and python 2.4. When I use Hyperteminal I can read data without try and try again that it is not the case with pyserial library. Anyone can help me? Hi, I never found the need to flush anything and I always use inWaiting prior to reader. A+ Philippe Mimi wrote: Hi, I use the pyserial to read data from a serial port. My code is in window Xp and python 2.4.
When I use Hyperteminal I can read data without try and try again that it is not the case with pyserial library. Anyone can help me? Few notes from the Python beginner:) HTH. I do not understand what do you mean by the expression: '. I can read data without try and try again.'
Can you be more specific please. I do not understand what do you exactly mean. AFIK the pyserial is waiting while the data occur on the serial port (so called blocking read) so it is not necessary to do some 'polling' (checking the serial port periodically). Following snippets of code is running in infinitive loop, but it is not necessary too be worried about processor utilization because the readline waits for the data on the serial port and the code continues to run when data occurs or when timeout passes. Import serial s = serial.Serial(port=0,baudrate=4800, timeout=20) while 1: line = s.readline # byte = s.read(1) # or you can read No.
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Of bytes according your needs Alternatively you can monitor buffer of the serial port and while data in it, you can read it. While fd.inWaiting!= 0: s.read(1) you can find plenty of examples about pyserial here What I am not able to figure out is why are you trying to print out input and output buffers (print self.ser.flushInput) Does it print out something? Thanks Peter, because you have understood my need: a little understanding of readlines function. # Following snippets of code is running in infinitive loop, but it is not necessary too be worried about processor utilization because the readline waits for the data on the serial port and the code continues to run when data occurs or when timeout passes. # my python script tries to read a lot of data (the histograms) and that can take many times (3 min) to download one file. And data do not arrived in the same time you can wait few seconds between data ( data response for the same command).
Do you think that readlines function will wait until all data are arrived or when the timeout expired? If the data take more time, the readlines will wait or will break on the timeout? With hyperterminal the data are echoed when they arrived and you can see that they do not arrived all the same time. The timeout is reset when the first data arrived or it is only ignored? I can recommend you to read pyserial documentation and look to the examples.
Browsing through this discussion group can help you a lot as well. Generally if the timeout is set to 0 (zero) the code will wait and wait and wait till the data will arrive to the serial port (if there is not data on the serial port, you can wait 'forever' and you can think your code is 'frozen':) ) Because of that, you can set the timeout, so after some time of waiting for the data (when the data do not arrive) the code continues on the next line. Try to experiment a little bit with some simple and short code first, so you will be able to understand how to communicate with the serial port. HTH Petr Jakes.
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