[PD] writing to the serial port with [comport]

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Apr 25 16:23:10 CEST 2006


On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I am trying to write data from Pd to Arduino.  Has anyone used [comport]
> to write out serial data before?  Any example patches?  I can only get
> TX_OVERRUNS errors.

If CTS/RTS pins aren't connected properly then the computer's UART might
be supposing that the device is not there and so it will accumulate data
until the buffer overflows, a situation which gets trapped and becomes a
TX_OVERRUNS.

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