How to set 250000 baud rate in pyserial ?

[kur...@gmail.com]

I use Arduino 1280 and Arduino 2560 under Fedora 15.
1280 creates ttyUSB0 port and can be set at 2500000 successfully.
2560 creates ttyACM0 port and can be only set at speeds from list (no 250000) in pyserial. How to set 250000 to ttyACM0 port?? Need I patch kernel or python?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-10-25, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> You don't say what error you are receiving but looking at the source
> (serialposix.py) implies that it accepts nearly anything on Linux, and
> relies on the OS returning a success/failure if the value is allowed or
> not.

1) Are you sure it matters? I've never played with an Arduino board,
but other stuff I've used that implements a "virtual serial port"
using a ttyUSB or ttyACM device (e.g. oscilloscope, various Atmel
eval boards, JTAG interfaces, etc.) didn't have actual UARTs in
them with real baud rate generators. You got the same high-speed
transfers no matter what baud rate you told the tty driver.

2) If you want a non-standard baud rate, there is a termios2 API on
Linux that allows that (assuming the low-level driver and hardwdare
support it). The last time I looked, it wasn't supported by
pyserial, but you can ask pyserial for the underlying file
descriptor and do the ioctl manually. The slightly ugly bit is
that you'll have to use struct (or maybe ctypes) to handle the
termios2 "C" structure.

The behavior of baud rate requests that can't be met exactly is
probably not very consistent. IIRC, the recommended approach is
for the low level driver to pick the closest supported baud, and
then report the actual baud rate back when you subsequently read
the termios2 structure. However, I do know of some devices that
will always report the requested baud rate even if the physical
baud rate that was selected wasn't exactly the same as the request
rate.

Here's how you set an arbitrary baud rate in C:

-------------------------arbitrary-baud.c--------------------------
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <linux/termios.h>

int ioctl(int d, int request, ...);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct termios2 t;
int fd,baud;

if (argc != 3)
{
fprintf(stderr,"usage: %s <device> <baud>\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);

if (fd == -1)
{
fprintf(stderr, "error opening %s: %s", argv[1], strerror(errno));
return 2;
}

baud = atoi(argv[2]);

if (ioctl(fd, TCGETS2, &t))
{
perror("TCGETS2");
return 3;
}

t.c_cflag &= ~CBAUD;
t.c_cflag |= BOTHER;
t.c_ispeed = baud;
t.c_ospeed = baud;

if (ioctl(fd, TCSETS2, &t))
{
perror("TCSETS2");
return 4;
}

if (ioctl(fd, TCGETS2, &t))
{
perror("TCGETS2");
return 5;
}

printf("actual speed reported %d\n", t.c_ospeed);
return 0;
}

--------------------------------------------------------------------

--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards
at
gmail.com

[kur...@gmail.com]

Error is like cannot set special baud rate.
But as I said pyserial set this speed without problem for ttyUSB0
So it seems pyserial uses diefferent code depending of port type.
I tried to simlink ln -s ttyACM0 ttyUSB0 but it does not work


On Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:11:23 PM UTC+3, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:09:56 -0700 (PDT), kur...@gmail.com declaimed
>
> the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

>
>
>
> > I use Arduino 1280 and Arduino 2560 under Fedora 15.
>
> > 1280 creates ttyUSB0 port and can be set at 2500000 successfully.
>
> > 2560 creates ttyACM0 port and can be only set at speeds from list (no 250000) in pyserial. How to set 250000 to ttyACM0 port?? Need I patch kernel or python?
>
>
>

> You don't say what error you are receiving but looking at the source
>
> (serialposix.py) implies that it accepts nearly anything on Linux, and
>
> relies on the OS returning a success/failure if the value is allowed or
>
> not.
>
>
>

> xxxBSD, SunOS, HPUX, IRIX, and CYGWIN systems don't allow "special"
>
> baudrates at all.
>
>
>
> .NET, JVM, and Windows don't seem to have explicit call outs for bad
>
> rates -- just a generic port configured OK test.
>
> --
>
> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
>
> wlf...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

[kur...@gmail.com]

Error is like cannot set special baud rate.
But as I said pyserial set this speed without problem for ttyUSB0
So it seems pyserial uses diefferent code depending of port type.
I tried to simlink ln -s ttyACM0 ttyUSB0 but it does not work


On Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:11:23 PM UTC+3, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:09:56 -0700 (PDT), kur...@gmail.com declaimed
>
> the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>

> > I use Arduino 1280 and Arduino 2560 under Fedora 15.
>
> > 1280 creates ttyUSB0 port and can be set at 2500000 successfully.
>
> > 2560 creates ttyACM0 port and can be only set at speeds from list (no 250000) in pyserial. How to set 250000 to ttyACM0 port?? Need I patch kernel or python?
>
>
>

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/26/2012 04:01 PM, kur...@gmail.com wrote:
> Error is like cannot set special baud rate. But as I said pyserial
> set this speed without problem for ttyUSB0 So it seems pyserial uses
> diefferent code depending of port type. I tried to simlink ln -s
> ttyACM0 ttyUSB0 but it does not work

No the difference in how baud rate is set is most likely in the driver.
pyserial just uses standard kernel apis and ioctls to control the device.