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Active4 years, 1 month ago
Hoping someone can help me out in my conundrum here...
I currently am testing the SoftwareSerial library out to understand how I may use it in my project.
I have a wire running from pin 6 to pin 9, so that the TX talks straight to the RX.
Software Serial Read Buffer
I have written the following:
The whole point is just to see 'F' return in the Serial Monitor.
The output, unfortunately, is absolutely nothing! If I omit the
while(mySerial.available>0)
I just get -1 's down the lines of the Serial Monitor.Thank you in advance!
Jonny HymanJonny Hyman
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SoftwareSerial cannot talk to itself. Since it is implemented in software and not hardware it can either send or receive at one time, but not both.
Look at the code for
write
in SoftwareSerial:Since it turns interrupts off, and interrupts are needed for it to detect incoming data, therefore it cannot detect incoming data while it is sending.
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Active5 years, 5 months ago
I have Arduino Leonardo board operating lots of AC relays in quite noisy environment. USB works unstable, which sometimes causes the board to hang, so I decided to use secondary serial connection as 'debug console':
My problem is that noise affects Serial1 the same way it messes USB (but at least it doesn't cause it to freeze). I'd like to use some sort of error checking to prevent Leonardo from acting on 'phantom' commands. I could, for example, prefix each keyboard command my Arduino should receive with special symbol, maybe '!'.
![Serial Serial](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126063381/273509224.jpg)
So I must be reading one char, checking if it is '!' and reading second character.
Unfortunately, I can't modify my code so it would use 2-character buffer and shift its contents as characters arrive, without locking the main loop while waiting for the next char. Any hints on what should I do in this case?
AlexanderAlexander
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Serial1 on the Arduino Leonardo is hardware serial, not software.
There are several ways to read in multiple bytes from Serial.
Software Serial Read Esp8266
Instead of detecting
Serial.available()
(i.e. non-zero), change it to Serial.available() >= 2
Arduino Software Serial Read Example
Or you can leave it as it is, and read into the buffer one at a time.
You'll need to detect the contents of the buffer in another
if
statement, and also deal with the bounds of the index.Honestly though, noise is your issue here - this is an example of an XY problem. There's nothing inherent in using a microcontroller with relays that should mean that serial won't work.
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