Qt Linux strange serial behaviour.

bask185

I had to switch from windows 7 to Linux Ubuntu and my application no longer properly communicates with my arduino device. On windows it was working perfectly but now my communication is not entirely 2 way anymore, it's more like 1.5 way.

I have no problems with reading from the arduino, output looks well:

"\u008F"  >>  1 // this '1' is the ammount of bytes send (Qt function)
<<  "6"  // received
<<  "2"
<<  "f1"
cursor set at  2 241
<<  "1a"
<<  "2"
<<  "f1"
position set at  2 241
"\u008F"  >>  1
<<  "6"
<<  "2"
<<  "f2"
cursor set at  2 242
<<  "1a"
<<  "2"
<<  "f2"
position set at  2 242

The arduino on the other hand does not properly read everything, it does read uppercase C, X and L but it does not read N, M and H to name a few examples. The Arduino still uses the exact same program when I was working under Windows. I am working at 115200 baud and I use even parity bit.

In Qt I tried to use even, odd and no parity bits but it does not seem to make any difference at all which is a bit strange. The real strange thing is that I have 0,0 flaws in bytes that Qt receives, it reads everything from 0 to 255.

to set the parity bits I use functions which I copied from the serial terminal example.

void MainWindow::openSerialPort()
{
    Setup::Settings p = settings->settings();
    serial->setPortName(p.name);
    serial->setBaudRate(p.baudRate);
    serial->setDataBits(p.dataBits);
    serial->setParity(p.parity);
    serial->setStopBits(p.stopBits);
    serial->setPortName(p.name);
    serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);

And I say again, this exact same software works fine on windows.

During the transition to ubuntu I forgot to safe the arduino code, it is a minor loss but I'd prefer if I would not have to install arduino and write new program to locate the problem. And because the same program worked without flaw on windows I suspect the problem is some kind of library setting of Qt creator's linux variant, but tbh I would not know.

I am always getting a '1' back after I send a byte so no error there. Googling the problem popped up this 2 year old post:
QtSerialPort does not detect parity error under linux

VRonin

How are you sending the data? It might be due to endian-ness

bask185

void MainWindow::on_F5_clicked()
{
   MainWindow::send((QString)0x82);
}

-->>

void MainWindow::send(QString c)
{
  int8_t error = serial->write(c.toLatin1());
  QString cAsHex = QString("%1").arg(c, 0, 16);
  qDebug()  << cAsHex << " >> " << error;

}