On 12/22/15, John Gardner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice! Thanks, Tom.
>
> On 12/22/15, Tom Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I thought this looked intriguing as well:
>>
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37203
>>
>> https://github.com/mholling/rpirtscts
>>
>> Being able to connect the M100 directly to the Raspi and not have to mess
>> with USB is very compelling :)
>>
>> Tom Hoppe
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Tom Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I had an idea of directly connecting to the M100 over BT, but it sounds
>>> like it may not work with no hardware flow control...I recently
>>> purchased
>>> a
>>> Bluetooth 4.0 Console Adapter for Raspberry Pi (see
>>> http://www.mindsensors.com/rpi/75-bluetooth-40-console-
>>> adapter-for-raspberry-pi) and it works great for its intended use. It is
>>> essentially a BlueSmirf module soldered to a shield that snaps onto a
>>> Raspberry Pi computer. It is designed to allow a serial terminal
>>> connection to be created to the Raspi using an Android phone or other BT
>>> enabled device. No configuration is necessary on the Raspi side as it
>>> uses
>>> the GPIO serial port on the Raspi itself (Raspbian has ttyAMA0
>>> configured
>>> by default for console connection).
>>>
>>> My thought was, the BlueSmirf has an interesting AdHoc mode that I was
>>> thinking *might* be made to work with Steve's BlueM device. My hope was
>>> to
>>> create a "zero config" solution to connect the M100 to the Raspi (the
>>> "config" would be permanently saved inside of the two BlueSmirf
>>> modules).
>>> In theory, all that would be needed would be LaddieAlpha/DLPlus running
>>> on
>>> the Raspi (talking via ttyAMA0) and NEWDOS on the M100 talking via the
>>> BlueM.
>>>
>>> So far, I have not had any luck getting into the BlueSmirf configuration
>>> mode on either module (hitting the "$$$" on startup, etc).
>>>
>>> Tom Hoppe
>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Yuen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > Congratulations on your pi. You know that there IS a serial port
>>>> > built
>>>> in on the GPIO bus and you don't really need a USB-RS-232 converter.
>>>> But
>>>> the signal levels on the GPIO need a converter from ttl to rs-232
>>>> signal
>>>> levels. Look for something with a MAX232 on it. That's how I connect
>>>> my
>>>> m100 to a pi.
>>>> >
>>>> > Jonathan
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> That's true... but FWIW, that won't give you flow control since the Pi
>>>> is a straight 3 wire affair for the built in serial port. HTERM uses
>>>> hardware flow control.
>>>>
>>>> -- John.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
