Hi Thomas,
Well, I recieved my arduino yesterday and started experimenting. I can upload a
scetch to the board and it functions well.
I can also communicate with it via ZTerm. (send and recieve)
Now the most important part: communicating with it via livecode.
Alas this gives me trouble aswell. Here is what I got.
Using Mark's code from the makeboard to get the OSXDeviceNames() and with the
arduino connected I see the following:
(it's important to have the board connected otherwise I don't see those modems)
usbmodem3a21
/dev/tty.usbmodem3a21
/dev/cu.usbmodem3a21
Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
..... ......
etc.
Further I can open a driver with: open driver "/dev/cu.usbmodem3a21"
and see a result on the board, it's resetting (as in the manual so this is as
should be)
I can also close the driver.
I haven't been able to recieve data from the board, but I am able to send
something to the board.
I send it a 1 and on the board I have a scetch which checks if it recieves
data. If it recieves data,
it will send the same data out with a delay of 500 millis. So when I send data
from livecode
I see the Rx led light and thereafter I see the Tx light, which means the board
did recieve something and sends
the incomming data back out.
Now I am gonna try to figure out what it recieves and what it sends. (Probably
I am gonna hook the whole bit up to a scope
so I can see what's going on on a electrical level)
If I use open file instead of driver it doesn't work. If I use the
/dev/tty.usbmodem3a21 instead of /dev/cu.usbmodem3a21
livecode hangs with the beachball and I have to force quit.
Well that's as far as I got till now.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to discuss/collaborate some of our
effords/failings etc. offlist.
As soon as I have something more I will contact you. Feel free to mail me with
your addional results/questions/suggestions etc.
Best wishes,
Claudi
On 21 jan 2011, at 07:19, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> Actually, as long as data is coming from the Arduino the app works. The data
> comes in and fills the field. But after the data stops being sent the system
> hangs. Until I push the button on the Arduino to send more data in which case
> the beach ball goes away and the new data gets received again.
>
> It's like as long as data keeps everything is fine. I can even close the port
> in the middle of getting data but If it gets to the end of the current stream
> the system hangs and I can't even close the port. I put code in to close the
> port after data stops and that is working I think but the system still hangs
> like it's waiting for more.
>
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> [email protected]
>
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>> OK well I can read the data from the USB Serial Modem -- but -- after it is
>> done the app hangs.
>>
>> So I can open the port and then read the port and I think close the port but
>> the system hangs.
>>
>> HELP.... ??
>> -- Tom McGrath III
>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>>> It seems if I set the EOL to CRLF things work partly. i.e. The numbers show
>>> up in the field BUT the script keeps looping and will not stop causing the
>>> beach ball.
>>>
>>> Sarah's code:
>>> on readPort
>>> if the hilite of btn "Port open" = true then
>>>
>>> if recEOL is "empty" then resetEOL
>>>
>>> put the label of btn "Port" into thePort
>>> if the hilite of btn "OS X" then
>>> read from file thePort until recEOL
>>> else
>>> read from file thePort until recEOL
>>> end if
>>> if it is not empty then put it after fld "recField"
>>> if last char of fld "recField" <> cr then put cr after fld "recField"
>>> send readPort to me in 5 ticks
>>> end if
>>> end readPort
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>>
>>>> UPDATE: Something is working but makes no sense.
>>>>
>>>> Found a few terminal screen ideas but they are outside of Livecode. No
>>>> good.
>>>> Found a few applescript examples but would rather keep this crossplatform
>>>> if possible and a LC to OSC solution would work on iOS but applescript
>>>> would not. Not best but may have to go this route.
>>>>
>>>> Found a few softwares that access the USB modem (not FTDI serial
>>>> emulation) as serial which leads me to believe LC can still do this even
>>>> with the change from software emulation of a serial port to the hardware
>>>> emulation of a serial port. So I looked again at Sarah's serialTest stack.
>>>>
>>>> I had to manually add the /dev/tty.usbmodem1a21 and /dev/cu.usbmodem1a21
>>>> to the popup menu. Then find replace driver with file in five places in
>>>> the stack. Now most of the other solutions use the tty but two use the cu
>>>> so I tested both. Major hang and LC not responding in Force Quit Window.
>>>>
>>>> Command period no good.
>>>> Esc no good.
>>>> Force quit. quits but no good and driver may still be open.
>>>>
>>>> Unplug Arduino Uno and plug it back in. HUH Serial Input Shows Up In Field
>>>> !!!!!! Beach ball of almost death goes away. Also port is now closed I
>>>> think. Also Arduino Tx led not lighting anymore - should be though. Wait
>>>> replug Arduino rest button on Arduino and serial Tx led is working again.
>>>> But no longer connected to LC. Try again. Open cu port and beach ball of
>>>> almost death shows up - LC not responding in Force Quit Window - Unplug
>>>> Arduino and field fills up with serial data. THe data is a bunch of 1 and
>>>> 0 based on blinking led.
>>>>
>>>> SO this seems to say it is connecting but not communicating well. Not
>>>> knowing enough about serial commands I am not sure what is causing the
>>>> hang and not responding??? They are both set to 9600. I read somewhere
>>>> that the trailing bit is or should be ignored.
>>>>
>>>> Is there another way to connect via message box with out clutter from
>>>> other settings ? Any ideas on what the culprit is here?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for staying with me on this one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 15, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jacque-
>>>>>
>>>>> Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:31:30 PM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There's no USB support per se, so if the device doesn't present itself
>>>>>> as a serial port device it won't work.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The path you use when you open a serial port as a file is the same one
>>>>>> you'd use in shell -- use the "/dev/tty.usbmodem1a21" path you
>>>>>> mentioned. Also, see if you can talk to it in shell just as a test.
>>>>>
>>>>> That should work then, since the Arduino driver has always presented
>>>>> itself as a serial port.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -Mark Wieder
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>>
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