On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Andres Mabini <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this as this is more
> of a TelosB issue than a TinyOS one, but I'd give it a try any way.
>
> I've been trying to use the UART port of the TelosB(I am using TinyOS) to
> communicate with another device. I haven't had much luck with that however,
> so to help with debugging I got a USB-UART converter and used cutecom. The
> cutecom tells me that the TelosB is giving out the character stream that I
> wanted it to give, and at the right intervals as well. "Problem" is, it
> only works when I connect RX to RX and TX to TX. All of the materials that
> I've read so far says that it should be RX to TX.
>

Physically the h/w works RX <- TX   and TX -> RX.

So there is something happening in the cabling.   Not sure what is going on
but physically it has to be RX to TX.   So something somewhere is getting
swapped.



>
> Even in the other device, I only get some results(though erroneous) when
> the connection is RX-RX/TX-TX.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
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