# Can't get Serial Out working on a Beaglebone Black

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serial-out-working-on-a-beaglebone-black/24720>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [12 April 2020 21:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serial-out-working-on-a-beaglebone-black/24720 "2020-04-12T21:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![brent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@brent](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/brent)\
**Post date:** [12 April 2020 21:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serial-out-working-on-a-beaglebone-black/24720/1 "2020-04-12T21:13:01Z")

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I'm trying to use node-red-node-serialport 0.10.1 and Node-Red 1.0.4 to send "hello world" to /dev/ttyS1 every 5 seconds, but nothing is wiggling yet. I have a short "hello world" script written in Python using the Cloud9 IDE to verify that my connections and settings are OK.

I get the following message about "permission denied" every time I re-Deploy or restart the flow:

```auto
4/12/2020, 3:35:22 PMmsg : string[85]

"serial port /dev/ttyS1 error: Error: Error: Permission denied, cannot open /dev/ttyS1"

4/12/2020, 3:35:27 PM[node: 9990c610.f0304](http://192.168.7.2:1880/#)msg.payload : string[11]

"hello world"

4/12/2020, 3:35:32 PM[node: 9990c610.f0304](http://192.168.7.2:1880/#)msg.payload : string[11]

"hello world"

```

I understand from the docs that the Beaglebone is configured to run Node-RED as root. I checked the permissions on /dev/ttyS1 as follows:

`brent@beaglebone:~$ ls -l /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Apr 12 20:27 /dev/ttyS1 `  
So from that I'm concluding that 'root' does have read and write permissions on /dev/ttyS1. (I even added 'root' to the dialout group but that was probably redundant and of course it made no difference.)

Subsequent messages do not get the same "permission denied" message so I'm unsure if that warning is my biggest clue.

Don't know if this will be a clue, but it took me a while to get this serial port working at all (that is, from Cloud9 and Python). The key there was to un-comment the following line in my uEnv.txt:

```auto
uboot_overlay_addr0=/lib/firmware/BB-UART1-00A0.dtbo

```

Here's my actual flow:

```auto
[{"id":"21fba7ae.f79fb8","type":"tab","label":"helloworld_serial","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"42c574f1.0e9eac","type":"serial out","z":"21fba7ae.f79fb8","name":"BBB S1","serial":"e29166d6.965718","x":480,"y":100,"wires":[]},{"id":"d4f598ef.53de2","type":"inject","z":"21fba7ae.f79fb8","name":"","topic":"","payload":"hello world","payloadType":"str","repeat":"5","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":110,"y":100,"wires":[["42c574f1.0e9eac","9990c610.f0304"]]},{"id":"9990c610.f0304","type":"debug","z":"21fba7ae.f79fb8","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":340,"y":180,"wires":[]},{"id":"e29166d6.965718","type":"serial-port","z":"","serialport":"/dev/ttyS1","serialbaud":"115200","databits":"8","parity":"none","stopbits":"1","waitfor":"","dtr":"none","rts":"none","cts":"none","dsr":"none","newline":"\\n","bin":"false","out":"char","addchar":"\\r\\n","responsetimeout":"10000"}]

```

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**Author:** ![brent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@brent](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/brent)\
**Post date:** [20 April 2020 01:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serial-out-working-on-a-beaglebone-black/24720/2 "2020-04-20T01:38:30Z")

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Solved this issue with this command:

```auto
chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1

```

so now when I check permissions I see:

```auto
`ls -al /dev/ttyS1
	crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Apr 20 00:34 /dev/ttyS1
`

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [4 May 2020 01:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serial-out-working-on-a-beaglebone-black/24720/3 "2020-05-04T01:51:29Z")

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