Serial port problem

[amiga_amigo]

Hello all,
i can't seem to get my serial connection with WinUAE 4.4.0 to work as it should - maybe someone can give me hint.
I need to send data to a piece of hardware using the following settings: baudrate 31250, 1 start bit, 8 data bits, parity even, 1 stop bit, no handshaking (not supported by hardware).
Everything works fine on windows but i can't get it to work from within WinUAE.
For debugging i've set up com0com (com1 <=> com2).

WinUAE IO-port settings:
com0com (com1) selected in Serial Port dropdown
Shared - unticked
RTS/CTS - unticked
Direct - unticked
uaeserial.device - unticked

WB serial preferences:
baudrate: 31250
input buffer size: 8192
Handshaking: none
Parity: even
Bits/char: 8
Stop Bits: 1
Applied "Use" and "Save"

echo "hello" >ser:

gives the following ascii output in a terminal on windows connected to com2:

A9,
68='h',
A8,
65='e',
A8,
6C='l',
A8,
6C='l',
A8,
6F='o',
A8,
0A='\n'

Tried various settings, none worked except if i switch to parity 'None'. Unfortunately this is not an option, since this setting is not supported by my hardware ('even', 'odd', 'mark', 'space' - all supported, but 'none' isn't).
What am i doing wrong? Is parity not supported / buggy? Any alternatives? I need to send data to the serial port from within the amiga shell...
Any help appreciated.

Michael

[duga]

What odd hardware are you using that doesn't support parity = none?

[Toni Wilen]

uaeserial.device supports parity. (But probably was never tested..)

Paula serial port emulation can't because Paula serial port parity is Amiga-side serial.device software feature so there is no way for emulator to know if data written to SERDAT is actually 8/9 bits or 7/8+parity bit.

[amiga_amigo]

Thanks Toni,

so if i understand correctly, then sending data with parity is impossible from within WinUAE using serial.device due to this Paula thing?
Maybe using uaeserial.device? I read somewhere, that it's directly connected to PC-side comports (unit == portnumber).
Is it possible to use uaeserial.device from the shell (classic WBs 1.3 ... 3.1)? Is there a "compatible" handler to mount it e.g. as aux or whatever?
I'd like to use shell scripts to compile code and send the ouput via serial to the connected hardware.

Googled quite a bit for uaeserial.device but there's not much information...

Michael

[Toni Wilen]

uaeserial.device unit 0 is first PC port, 1 second and so on. Otherwise it works just like normal serial.device.

But I am not sure if all PC serial ports support 8 + 1 parity bit mode. 7+1 would have worked even with emulated serial.device because there is no hardware level difference between 7+1 and 8+0.

I think there was some way to customize serial device name and unit to AUX handler via extra mount list entries but I don't remember it now. Or just hex edit l:aux-handler

[Rock'n Roll]

I want control the onboard LED on an Arduino over the WinUAE serial port.
But there is anything wrong.

I have the settings 9600,8N1,Handshaking none.
The output from WinUAE to a terminal is ok.

I send
1 or 0 for "1-LED on" and "0-LED off"
I can control the led on or off over the terminal.

But from WinUAE only the 0 "LED off" works.
By the command 1 the LED flashes but remains off.

This are the commands:
>echo >ser:"1"
>echo >ser:"0"
(also possible: echo >ser:"aawedew1ds" any 1 or 0 in this data)

Maybe anyone can check this?

(Test with Arduino Uno and Mega2560 with 9600 or 19200 and com0com)

[Rock'n Roll]

I made some further tests and it works, when I make following:
In my case I have to COM-Ports
COM7: Arduino Mega 2560 (USB to USB)
COM8: USB Serial Port (its an USB to serial TTL cable with open pins)

If I write the serial commands direct to COM7 - there is any problem.
But if I take COM8 with the USB to serial cable and connected it
direct to the pins RXD,TxD and GND on the Arduino board then it works.

I tested with the commands:
SYS:>echo >ser: 0 for LED off
SYS:>echo >ser: 1 for LED on

In my Arduino code I write back the serial data.
if (Serial1.available() > 0) {
incomingByte = Serial1.read();
Serial.println(incomingByte);
...

And in the terminal I get following response for:
SYS:>echo >ser: 0
hex: 0x34, 0x39, 0x0D, 0x0A, 0x31, 0x30, 0x0D, 0x0A
and for
SYS:>echo >ser: 0 noline
hex: 0x34, 0x39, 0x0D, 0x0A, 0x30, 0x0D, 0x0A

Is there a DOS-command for only:
hex: 0x34, 0x39, 0x0D, 0x0A (or only hex: 0x34, 0x39) ?

[Toni Wilen]

I guess it is "echo" that adds the linefeed. (Not that this has anything to do with emulation or OPs problem..). Try for example copying properly formatted text file to SER: instead of using echo.

OP: If you really can't find any other solution, I can add config file option that forces Paula serial port emulation to always use specified parity and number of bits.