Removing the link between the console output of the system and the UART interface

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#1

Hi guys! I would like to use the UART interface to make this board communicate with another one.



I have plugged a serial to TTL converter to a laptop and connected it to the TX, RX and GND pins of the RespeakerCore. I then opened a miniterm console (with the right baudrate and port settings) on my laptop and another one on the Respeaker. I powered on the Respeaker and the console output appears on miniterm. I would like to have full control over the TX and RX lines in order to correctly send and receive strings of data.



I have noticed that one service is using the ttyS2 device I am interested about.

</s>userk@glutamate:~$ sudo systemctl status | grep tty │ ├─system-serial\x2dgetty.slice │ │ ├─serial-getty@ttyS2.service │ │ │ └─721 /sbin/agetty --keep-baud 115200,38400,9600 ttyS2 vt220 │ │ └─serial-getty@ttyGS0.service │ │ └─747 /sbin/agetty --keep-baud 115200,38400,9600 ttyGS0 vt220 │ │ └─767 brcm_patchram_plus --enable_hci --no2bytes --use_baudrate_for_download --tosleep 200000 --baudrate 1500000 --patchram /system/etc/firmware/bcm43438a0.hcd /dev/ttyS1 │ ├─system-getty.slice │ │ └─getty@tty1.service │ │ └─720 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux │ ├─1050 grep tty<e>

By stopping and disabling the service with:

</s>sudo systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS2.service sudo systemctl disable serial-getty@ttyS2.service<e>

the communication works in both directions till the next reboot. Then the console output is redirected to ttyS2 again



Is this method the best one to get rid of the console output on that port?

How do I make this configuration permanent?



Thanks,

Gepp

#2

Hi Gepp,



we can use the 2 USB ports and use the usb to ttl adapter to transfer to tx/rx signal. we use the function to communicate with linkit one previously. thanks.

#3

Hi there,



please try below instructions. You have to use the 20180801 firmware.


  1. please check rk3229-respeaker-v2.dtb is inside of /boot/dtb/4.4.138-respeaker-r0/
  2. edit the uEnv.txt file as below

    respeaker@v2:~$ sudo nano /boot/uEnv.txt

    uname_r=4.4.138-respeaker-r0

    earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x11020000

    console=ttyS1,115200n8 rw

    #uuid=

    dtb=rk3229-respeaker-v2.dtb

    #dtb=

    cmdline=coherent_pool=1M quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd

    ##enable Flasher:

    ##make sure, these tools are installed: dosfstools rsync

    #cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/init-eMMC-flasher-respeaker.sh


  3. reboot the respeaker:

    respeaker@v2:~$ sudo reboot



    thanks.