MIKROBASIC Soft_Uart to PICBASIC SEIRIN2?

[Corbet]

I am trying to use Mikrobasic and PicBasic to communicate between chips. My receiver is using SERIN2 porta.1,84,10,comfail,[wait ("@"),STR t1pulse\6] but my sender is using MIKROBASIC SOFT_UART and I can't seem to get them to communicate properly. If anyone has any experience with this let me know how to fix it. The receiver is receiving values but they aren't right at all. How do I get these to communicate properly. I need to send an array of 6 values between 0 and 180. Any help is appreciated.

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,

Are you sure the sender and reciever are using the same polarity? Mode 84 in PBP means 9600baud, true. Are you sure that sender is sending the data true and not inverted? 16468 is the mode for 9600baud, inverted - if in doubt, give that a try.

/Henrik.

[Corbet]

Yup, first thing I made sure of. 9600 Baud, 8N1 true. I think it's just not sending the data the same because of the type. When I send a number to the SERIN2 statement like I outlined in the first post, how does the statement expect the data to come? what I mean is does it expect 3 ascii values for each digit individually to come like if i send 128 will it expect to get, 1 in ascii followed by 2 in ascii followed by 8 in ascii? or does it receive the binary value of 128 and convert to STR?

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
The line

SERIN2 porta.1,84,10,comfail,[wait ("@"),STR t1pulse\6]

Will recieve up to 6 bytes and store each byte in the t1pulse array. In this case it expects each value as one byte, not the ASCII representation of the value (for that you use the DEC modifier). If the sending device sends the "raw" value 128 you'll get 128 in t1pulse[0]. If it sends the value in ASCII you'll get 49 in t1pulse[0] because 49 is the ASCII code for '1'.

I hope that makes sense.

/Henrik.

[Corbet]

I wrote the received values to to eeprom and read them and with 110,110,110,110,110,110 sent, it received 6E,AE,6E,EE,6E,EE. These are 110,174,110,238,110,238.

The similarity is in the binary,
Hex DEC bin
6E 110 0110 1110
AE 174 1010 1110
EE 238 1110 1110

the last 4 bits are all the same and the first 4 arent too different. I will try changing the sender type to unsigned instead of integer and see what changes.

[mister_e]

I may miss the point but... why having a Sender code written in MikroBasic and a receiver in PicBasic?