On 9/9/06, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I wrote a script on Linux that uses pyserial to read status messages > | from a serial line using readlines(). For now, it just displays what > | it gets on stdout: > | (...) > | ser = serial.Serial(port=1, > | baudrate=1200, > | rtscts=1, > > if this is enabling hardware flow control try turning it off - at 1200 baud > you > should not need it
Okay I disabled this for once. > | > | If the script does not time out there, I am not sure what else it is > | doing. It seems to be in a wait state it does not get out of. > > Sounds more and more like flow control hassle - can you lay your hands on a > break out box or a datascope? Unfortunately not. I will run a few more tests without rtscts though. I am actually not horribly worried about kicking the serial reading service every once in a while, but it would be better if it detected the "stall" state itself... Thanks Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
