[PD] comport rxerrors

[rolfm at dds.nl]

Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com> schreef:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:08 AM, <rolfm at dds.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com> schreef:
>>
>> What errors do you get? Do you get data OK/wrong/some/none? What baud rate
>>> are you using?
>>>
>>>
>> RXERRORS on serial line (997)
>>
>> after opening the port 10 of these messages appear.
>> then after around 40 secs the message is given continouisly.
>>
>> i tried 9600 and 115200 as baud rates: same result.
>>
>> no data comes through.
>>
>> this with a simple setup:
>> Arduino sketch does every 3 secs a Serial.println,
>> PD patch only with [comport] and [print].
>>
>>
> In your arduino code you will have a line
> Serial.begin();
> with the baud rate inside the parentheses. It should be the same as what
> [comport] is using.
> Also Serial,println() sends ASCII and [comport] will output those ASCII
> codes, not the actual text.
> So if the baud rates are really the same at both ends and you still get no
> data, then [comport] is buggy on Win10, beyond printing the non-error
> message.
>
> Martin

i was afraid of that: [comport] buggy on W10.
probably the only thing i can do now is filing a bug report.

and then trying to find a 'work-around' with a virtual machine.

thanks for the answer

rolf