[Tutor] how to read over serial port

[shawn bright]

Forgot some info,
i hooked the device up and used a serial terminal and got back stuff like this
!^V$G(R)±LL,3602.0960,N,10229.2959,W,r$4013,V*2E
some of the above is what i am looking for.

settings are the same as in my python script

thanks for any help,
shawn


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Jerry Hill <malaclypse2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yes, they look like this
>> ����������������������
>>
>> so i used your print repr(chr(ord(i))) and got this
>
> Note that that's the same thing as just printing repr(i).
>
>> so, what do i do now?
>> and thanks for the info, by the way, been writing python for 2 years,
>> but this is all new to me.
>
> Maybe we should back up a little bit.  You said in your original post
> that you were expecting ASCII characters from the serial device.  How
> do you know that's what you should be getting back?  Have you tried
> communicating with the device using some other program?  If so, what
> program?  Do you have specs that tell you that's how it's supposed to
> work?
>
> Are you sure you're connecting to the device with the right parameters
> for baudrate, byte size, parity, etc?
>
> I notice that nowhere in this thread have you posted the code you use
> to actually communicate with the serial device.  Maybe you should do
> that.
>
> --
> Jerry
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