#garfield Logs

Nov 24 2014

23:05 rue_more hey
23:06 moon why wuold my php program only be able to work with the serial while minicom is open to it
23:06 rue_more the account says you have $8
23:07 moon ok
23:07 rue_more ask your question again
23:07 moon why wuold my php program only be able to work with the serial while minicom is open to it
23:07 rue_more I need to you fix what it says when you re-ask it
23:07 rue_more ooh
23:07 rue_more you mean, it can only read/write to it while minicom has it open?
23:09 moon well nothing happens when i dont have minicom open and whem i do have it open the send seems to go to the baby board and the reciev to mini com and everying works
23:09 rue_more when you quit minicom, do you let it reset the port?
23:10 rue_more wait, what
23:10 moon tryed with and without
23:10 rue_more uh, when two program open a port, both can write but only the first one will recieve the data
23:11 moon ok
23:11 moon but that doesnt explatn no write without minicom
23:12 rue_more when you close minicom, close without reset
23:12 rue_more ctrl-a q
23:12 moon i did both aq and a x
23:13 rue_more otherwise it puts the serial port back to the baud/etc it was before minicom opened
23:13 rue_more ctrl-a q enter should quit without reset
23:13 moon i got that
23:13 rue_more k, and write still dosn't work?
23:14 moon leme try again 1 sec
23:20 moon im getting mixed results unfortunitly i have to go back into the bus to be sure ill update you later i supose
23:30 rue_more http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1-Channel-5V-Relay-Module-Shield-for-Arduino-uno-1280-2560-ARM-PIC-AVR-DSP-/261459173159
23:39 rue_more http://www.ebay.ca/itm/5V-UNO-2560-1280-2-Channel-Relay-Module-Shield-For-Arduino-ARM-PIC-AVR-STM32-/271654053937
23:39 rue_more that might be less than twice the price