Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread shawn bright
Hey all, thanks for all the help. I will go out in the morning and check all the equipment, have heard too much advice from too many with python experience to ignore the fact that something is likely screwed up in my settings or baudrate. will be back in touch later as i check it out. sk On Mon,

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread Brian C. Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shawn bright wrote: > 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. > Ok, that looks bad. You have s

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread 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, J

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 w

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread shawn bright
yes, they look like this �� so i used your print repr(chr(ord(i))) and got this '\x00' '\x06' '\x00' ':' '\x80' '\x1f' '\x16' 'g' 'J' 's' '\xde' '\xc0' 'J' 's' '\xde' '\xc0' '\xce' '\xcc' '\x06' '\n' '\x00' '\x00' ' ' '\xaf' 'J' 's' '\xde' '\xc0' so, what do i do now? and than

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread Lie Ryan
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:48:44 -0600, shawn bright wrote: > ok, i have another question: > if i run this: > #!/usr/bin/env python > f = 'test_out' > f = open(f, 'r').read() > for i in f: > print ord(i) > > I get this: > 0 > 6 > 0 > 58 > 128 > 31 > 22 > 103 > 74 > 115 > 222 > 192 > 74 > 115 > 22

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread Lie Ryan
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:48:44 -0600, shawn bright wrote: > ok, i have another question: > if i run this: > #!/usr/bin/env python > f = 'test_out' > f = open(f, 'r').read() > for i in f: > print ord(i) > > I get this: > 0 > 6 > 0 > 58 > 128 > 31 > 22 > 103 > 74 > 115 > 222 > 192 > 74 > 115 > 22

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread shawn bright
ok, i have another question: if i run this: #!/usr/bin/env python f = 'test_out' f = open(f, 'r').read() for i in f: print ord(i) I get this: 0 6 0 58 128 31 22 103 74 115 222 192 74 115 222 192 (deleted some in the email for brevity) if i do for i in f: print chr(ord(i)) i get the same

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-03 Thread shawn bright
Hey all, sorry, but am i supposed to be using 'rb' to read this? thanks sk On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks all, > Yeah, checked the settings, and when i have the thing talk to a > program that just prints out whatever the serial port reads, It was

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-02 Thread shawn bright
Thanks all, Yeah, checked the settings, and when i have the thing talk to a program that just prints out whatever the serial port reads, It was looking fine. Incorrect baudrate was my first problem, and did cause weirdness, escpeially on the latter end of the message, but this isn't the same proble

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-02 Thread Brian C. Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shawn bright wrote: > Hey there all, > > I have a gps device that talks to the computer over a serial port. > i am using the pyserial module and getting values in. Here are the relevant bits of a serial to tcp/ip app that I use. Most likely you have

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-02 Thread Roel Schroeven
shawn bright schreef: Hey there all, I have a gps device that talks to the computer over a serial port. i am using the pyserial module and getting values in. Here is my delima, i am supposed to read a message in that starts with a $ (this is all ascii). but when i do a ser.read(16) and i try t

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-01 Thread shawn bright
First, thanks for you time with me on this. When i said weird characters, i meant that they were not characters you would find on a keyboard. Like one of them is a black diamond with a question mark in it. there are some weird block characters, occationally a letter, etc.. did not clarify why i wr

Re: [Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-01 Thread bob gailer
shawn bright wrote: Hey there all, I have a gps device that talks to the computer over a serial port. i am using the pyserial module and getting values in. Here is my delima, i am supposed to read a message in that starts with a $ (this is all ascii). but when i do a ser.read(16) and i try to

[Tutor] how to read over serial port

2008-11-01 Thread shawn bright
Hey there all, I have a gps device that talks to the computer over a serial port. i am using the pyserial module and getting values in. Here is my delima, i am supposed to read a message in that starts with a $ (this is all ascii). but when i do a ser.read(16) and i try to print it to a screen,