I think Charles' suggestion is probably the best way to go about dealing with this issue. Enable some kind of hardware flow control. XON / XOFF is probably a good bet.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:22 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the current speed you are using for the serial ports? >> >> There is also a transmit buffer inside the serial port transmitter in the >> BBB. >> If you are putting streaming character data into the transmit buffer >> faster than >> the serial port can send it, you can also lose data. >> >> One way to fix this is to set the serial port to a higher speed, on both >> ends. >> >> I think the BBB and most PCs are well behaved up to 256000 bits per >> second. >> > > I recall our local serial expert stating that the beaglebone's UART is > capable of up to at least 4Mbit. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORrbZYtBd8c2Qh45iDQsxvhdR3nVKXV-B_EJ1AP_zgMGWw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
