On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 12:29:07 PM UTC-4, WZ9V wrote:
>
> Feel free to update the wiki article. I wrote it originally but I switched 
> my OctoPrint server to the RPi eventually because it's more common.  I 
> moved my BBB back to more experimentation.


Yeah, a RPi does seem a little easier and common to work with. Once all the 
kinks are worked out with the steps, I will see what I can do to update the 
wiki. 

On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 12:09:49 PM UTC-4, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> AFAIK, there's only one serial console, and that's on the serial debug 
> port (the 6-pin header).  You should be free to use any of the UARTs 
> connected to P8/P9 pins, but you'll probably need to enable them first 
> via a device tree overlay.


So I just did a quick test by connecting a RPi to the BBB UART1 (P9_24 = TX 
and P9_26 = RX) after enabling the UART and confirming its available via:
<code>
root@beaglebone:/dev# ls -l ttyO*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul  8 01:09 ttyO0 -> ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul  8 01:09 ttyO1 -> ttyS1
<\code>

I logged into the RPi and started a minicom session with a 115200 and 9600 
baud just to see if I can grab any response from the port. I believe you 
are correct that a console is not tied with UART1 since I'm not receiving 
anything of interest (no login prompt or even garbage). To farther verify 
this, I was able to make a console connection from BBB UART1 to RPi. There 
was no odd ball junk popping out like it would if using UART0 while tied to 
the console.

On a side note, why is there a ttyS* tied with the ttyO*? I'd always 
assumed that those where devices indicating that there is a shell console 
tied with the UART port. After this quick test, it would seem like this is 
incorrect to assume. I was able to use either ttyO1 or ttyS1 to communicate 
from BBB to RPi without any issues. Why is this there?

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