Hello, everyone, I just notify something with the RS485 :

I've made a test programm, and in this programm, I'm sending all the time
one byte.

With the oscilloscope, I can see that there is a delay between each frame :
100ms .


Do you have the same thing ?


Micka,






On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Alexander Hiam <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:09:32 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I can see 'rs485 v1.1'. The python code still works fine out of the
>> box. C code Rx and Tx lines work OK but RTS still does nothing.
>> When I exported the GPIO9 by hand, dmesg got:
>> [  222.055685] gpio_request: gpio-9 (RS485 TXE) status -16
>> [  222.055730] omap_uart 481a8000.serial: Could not request GPIO 9 : -16
>>
>> That means that 485 kernel support works. Without manually exporting it
>> says just "[  537.089146] rs485 v1.1" and does nothing.
>>
>> BUT now I've discovered something strange with logical level flags in
>> struct serial_rs485, maybe I'm using different header or maybe I don't
>> understand it correctly.
>> When I changed the SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND to 0 and
>> SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND to 0,* it started working fine*.
>> That means, when sending data, RTS goes HIGH, after sending, it goes
>> immediately LOW , that means,
>> I expected setting ON_SEND to 1 and AFTER_SEND to 0, but with this
>> setting it just changed from LOW to LOW.
>>
>
> Oh yeah, forgot about that. There's a couple ternary operators in the
> driver that I think might be backwards, which makes it the logic levels a
> bit counter intuitive. It's:
>   SER_RS485_ENABLED | SER_RS485_USE_GPIO
> for an active high RE/DE signal and:
>   SER_RS485_ENABLED | SER_RS485_USE_GPIO | SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND |
> SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND
> for an inverted, active low RE/DE signal.
>
>>
>> Thank you both again for Your valuable help.
>> I'm satisfied now :-)
>>
>>
>> Dne pondělí, 8. září 2014 19:12:55 UTC+2 Alexander Hiam napsal(a):
>>
>>
>>
>> Normally If you look at the log (dmsg)  you should see a line rs485
>> something. It's a printk that I show when the ioctl work.
>>
>> Right, it's 'rs485 v1.1'. If you see that in dmesg then the ioctl worked
>> and it's almost certainly a pinmux issue.
>>
>>
>> And of course you have to configure the pin correctly = pin mode for TX,
>> rx,  gpio.
>> Le 8 sept. 2014 17:27, <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> I've downloaded Robert C Nelson's code and run build_kernel.sh and
>> install_kernel.sh. I've controlled that sources are patched by rs485 patch.
>> BBB booted up normally and uname -r says that I am running new kernel.
>> But I don't have patched kernel headers. I have created serial.h header as
>> following:
>>  1 #include <linux/types.h>
>>   2
>>   3
>>   4 struct serial_rs485 {
>>   5         __u32   flags;                  /* RS485 feature flags */
>>   6 #define SER_RS485_ENABLED               (1 << 0)        /* If
>> enabled */
>>   7 #define SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND           (1 << 1)        /* Logical
>> level for
>>   8                                                            RTS pin
>> when
>>   9                                                            sending */
>>  10 #define SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND        (1 << 2)        /* Logical
>> level for
>>  11                                                            RTS pin
>> after sent*/
>>  12 #define SER_RS485_RTS_BEFORE_SEND (1 << 3)
>>  13 #define SER_RS485_USE_GPIO (1 << 5)
>>  14 //#define SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX          (1 << 4)
>>  15         __u32   delay_rts_before_send;  /* Delay before send
>> (milliseconds) */
>>  16         __u32   delay_rts_after_send;   /* Delay after send
>> (milliseconds) */
>>  17 //       __u32   padding[5];             /* Memory is cheap, new
>> structs
>>  18                 __u32 gpio_pin; /* GPIO Pin Index */
>>  19                 __u32 padding[4]; /* Memory is cheap, new structs
>>  20                         are a royal PITA .. */
>>  21 };
>>
>>
>> and used it in small example program:
>> #include <fcntl.h>
>> #include <termios.h>
>> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>> #include <sys/types.h>
>> #include "serial.h"
>> //#include <include/uapi/linux/serial.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <unistd.h>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>>     int fd = open("/dev/ttyO4", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);
>>     if (fd < 0)
>>     {
>>         perror("Error opening tty!");
>>         return 1;
>>     }
>>
>>     struct serial_rs485 rs485conf;
>>
>>     rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_ENABLED;
>>
>>     rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_USE_GPIO;
>>     rs485conf.gpio_pin = 9;
>>     rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND;
>>     rs485conf.flags &= ~(SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND);
>>     rs485conf.delay_rts_before_send = 0;
>>     rs485conf.delay_rts_after_send = 0;
>>
>>     if (ioctl (fd, TIOCSRS485, &rs485conf) < 0)
>>     {
>>             perror("Bad ioctl");
>>     }
>>
>>     struct termios ttyc;
>>     tcgetattr(fd, &ttyc);
>>
>>     cfsetospeed(&ttyc, B9600);
>>     cfsetispeed(&ttyc, B9600);
>>     ttyc.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;
>>     ttyc.c_cflag |= CS8 | CLOCAL | CREAD;
>>     ttyc.c_cflag |= CRTSCTS;
>>     ttyc.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
>>     ttyc.c_cc[VTIME] = 5;
>>     tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &ttyc);
>>
>>     char data = 0xAA;
>>
>>     int i = 0;
>>     while(i < 10000)
>>     {
>>         if(write(fd, &data, 1) < 1)
>>         {
>>             perror("Error sending char");
>>             break;
>>         }
>>
>>         i++;
>>     }
>>
>>     if (close (fd) < 0)
>>     {
>>         perror("Error closing tty!");
>>         return 1;
>>     }
>>
>>
>>     return 0;
>> }
>> but RTS pin stays still LOW.
>>
>>
>> Dne čtvrtek, 4. září 2014 21:51:58 UTC+2 Mickae1 napsal(a):
>>
>> In the Debian image from Robert C Nelson, the patch rs485 is already
>> included.
>> Le 4 sept. 2014 20:57, <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> Thank you for your answers. The python code is working perfectly.
>> I need to use it in greater C project though. So I am compiling new
>> kernel including RS485 patch. I have tried 
>> /opt/scripts/tools/update_kernel.sh
>> hoping that it includes the RS485 patch ...unsuccessfully.
>> I am now following steps from http://jkridner.wordpress.com/
>> 2014/06/04/yet-another-set-of-notes-on-building-beaglebone-kernel/
>>
>> Dne středa, 3. září 2014 17:57:53 UTC+2 [email protected] napsal(a):
>>
>> Hello,
>> I'm writing an app for BeagleBoneBlack running debian (3.8.13-bone50). I
>> would like to use UART4 to communicate with RS485 transmitter over
>> P9.24(UART4 Tx), P9.26(UART4 Rx) and P8.33 (UART4 RTS).
>> I've disabled HDMI and enabled overlays BB-UART4 and BB-UART4-RTSCTS
>>
>>  cat /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
>>  0: 54:PF---
>>  1: 55:PF---
>>  2: 56:PF---
>>  3: 57:PF---
>>  4: ff:P-O-L Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G
>>  5: ff:P-O-- Bone-Black-HDMI,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMI
>>  6: ff:P-O-- Bone-Black-HDMIN,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMIN
>>  7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4
>> 10: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4-RTSCTS
>>
>> cat /proc/tty/driver/OMAP-SERIAL
>> serinfo:1.0 driver revision:
>> 0: uart:OMAP UART0 mmio:0x44E09000 irq:72 tx:345 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR
>> 4: uart:OMAP UART4 mmio:0x481A8000 irq:45 tx:61355 rx:1 brk:1 RTS|DTR|DSR
>>
>>
>> RS485 transmitter is connected through RS485-USB converter to PC. When I
>> run screen /dev/ttyO4 9600 +crtscts and periodicaly write some data to it,
>> PC receives it properly, but RTS line stays constantly low (I'm using scope
>> on Tx and RTS lines).
>> I've also tried to write simple C program, using *struct serial_rs485. *When
>> I write some data over this program, I got response: *Resource
>> temporarily unavailable* and dmesg says
>> *omap_uart 481a8000.serial: Must use GPIO for RS485 Support. *When I
>> tried to use:
>> struct serial_rs485 rs485conf;
>> rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_USE_GPIO;
>> rs485conf.gpio_pin = GPIO0_9;
>>
>> I got error from gcc that it does not know those macros:
>> ‘SER_RS485_USE_GPIO’ was not declared in this scope
>>  rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_USE_GPIO;
>> ‘struct serial_rs485’ has no member named ‘gpio_pin’
>>   rs485conf.gpio_pin = GPIO0_9;
>> ‘GPIO0_9’ was not declared in this scope
>>   rs485conf.gpio_pin = GPIO0_9;
>>
>> Could somebody help me? I have no more ideas.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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