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I think I found the problem. I don’t really know the code, so I’m just tracing through and looking at how the Port number is used, but…
UARTSensor.InitUart() goes into a loop where it calls ClearPortChanged(), waits, and then reads the status and checks the status for the UartPortChanged bit.
GetStatus() is implemented as such:
private byte GetStatus()
{
return uartMemory.Read(UartStatusOffset, NumberOfSenosrPorts)[(int)port];
}And basically reads the status byte from memory location “UartStatusOffset+port”
However, ClearPortChanged() has a bug I think. Its implemented as:
private void ClearPortChanged()
{
SensorManager.Instance.ClearUartPortChanged(this.port);
uartMemory.Write (UartStatusOffset, new byte[] { (byte)(uartMemory.Read ((int)port, 1) [0] & ~UartPortChanged) });
this.uartMode = UARTMode.Mode0;
}The uartMemory.Write() call doesn’t look right. It reads one byte from memory location “port” (not “UartStatusOffset+port”, just “port”), clears the UartPortChanged bit in the byte, and then writes it to memory location “UartStatusOffset” (not “UartStatusOffset+port”)
So the first problem that I see, is that it is always writing one byte to memory location “UartStatusOffset” regardless of the port number (which means it always writes to the port 1 location). The second possible problem is that the value it reads before clearing the bit is from memory location “port”, not “UartStatusOffset+port” that it’s supposed to be writing to and that it reads from in GetStatus().
I hope this helps. I’m going to try it myself tonight.
Great, I’m glad I was of help. I’m new to the open source scene, so I don’t know all the etiquette and protocol and didn’t even think about the possibility of fixing it myself. I will have to read up on pull requests on github. Also, I found it only through code inspection and looking for inconsistencies, not because I knew what it was supposed to do.
However, what about the second issue I identified? It looks like you are trying to read a byte, clear a bit, and then write it back. However you are not reading and writing from the same place. You are reading from “port” and writing to “UartStatusOffset+port”
I would like to understand more about the lower level interactions with the devices. Where are you getting your information about how to communicate with the devices?
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