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Anybody using the bubba for measuring temperature, humidity etc and is willing to share their experiences when it comes to hardware selection etc?

Hi,
I have an AVR development board (Olimex have several see http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html) where
I've connected among other things, 5 ...

1) I was looking at USB to serial cables using the pl2303/x chipset, and a recent post in the Bubba2 forum suggests that support is in the kernel for the pl2302; by association does this cover the 2303/x too?

From my Bubba2 syslog using kernel 2.6.26.5 out of the box:
kernel: usbcore: registered ...

Tor!

Hi again AArdo,
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Further more i see no serial port setup code in your example. Could this maybe be the thing triggering this behavior?

/Tor

You're probably right. Installing minicom and running towards my AVR works OK, and after that my Perl script works OK aswell.

Thanks for your help ...

Hi Anders,

Which cable is this? And when does this occur? When plugging the cable or when executing your perl script?

/Tor

Tor,
It is from Kjell o Co item 38885: USB till seriell adapter DB9ha - USB A ha
(Sorry haven't got any more info ...) -- Recommendations for a better one?

Error messages ...

I have an AVR ATMega16 board talking RS232 serial that I want to connect to my Bubba 2.
So I bought a USB to serial adapter which was recognized by the system.

Trying out a small test program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|=1;
open(AVR,"+</dev/ttyUSB0"); #Both read and write
print AVR "p";
while(<AVR>) { print ...