Display serial input into debug

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Hi There,

I'm trying to get the serial data send to my hardware in the debug output.I'm not sure whether it will send the data without any function node.below is the flow i have created.Kindly guide me to get serial data in the debug.currenlty it shows msg.payload as " " only. check the screenshots below.

If any node with some script is required I request you to give that also as I am at all into coding.
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Thank You

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Is your hardware sending any data ?

To send data to your hardware you need to use the serial-out or serial-request node.

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Hi

Im using putty in my laptop to send serial data to my hardware running nodered using RS232.whenever I type something I can see in the nodered debug Im getting the outout as shown in the picture.
So I guess data is reaching till my hardware.I just want to see the exact character as I type in putty in the debug tab.

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Hope its now clear for you

Thank you so much

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you cant have two things talking to the same serial port - so either you can use putty OR you can use Node-RED. If you want to do what you suggest you need two serial ports connected back to back with a crossover cable

putty -> serial A -> x -> serial B -> Node-RED
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Hi

actually I am connected with cross over cable from laptop to the device where NodeRED in running. I have a seperate hardware where I am running NodeRED.So the connection is exactly same as you showed.

Could you please share your views now.

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Then as long as the port details are all correct then it should work. /dev/ttyCOM0 is a bit unusual though not seen one called that before.

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I have actually, my old graphing calculator would connect to that one :slight_smile: It's an unusual one, but not impossible.

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What do you see if you tell the node to output a binary buffer?

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Hi Colin,

Binary buffer doesn't give any output to the debug tab.

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Hi dceejay
/dev/ttyCOM0 shows in the pallet as connected. If I change any of the character it says not connected. So I think it's properly talking with the serial port.

If I use msg.payload.length it gives the character count in the debug tab. I hope this will give you some good crack. I tried msg.payload.string hoping that it may return the character but it doesn't.

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That doesn't make sense. Do you mean that no debug message appears at all, even if you keep sending data? Try it with split into fixed lengths of 1 (or another count) characters and send buffers.
When set to string do you get one message in the debug each time you send a character?

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What character count? With it set to timeout after 0 msec you should get one character at a time.

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Hi Colin,

I got this from forum .

var newMsg = { payload: msg.payload.length };
return newMsg;

if I use this I am getting the number of characters typed during the time interval.see the image.
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if I replace the command like this and change ascii to binary I am getting the payload as below.with ascii string payload filed shows nothing.( what are the other options available to replace "length"? any changes here will give me the character I am typing ?)
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for the first reply of yours,

when I did split into fixed length of I debug output is as below.
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yes , I am getting one message in debug each time I send a character.

I hope this inputs helps you to understand the behavior. Thank you so much for your inputs.

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So all your characters are coming through as zeros. I presume you are confident that you have the baud rate correct. If you run something other than node-red on the receiver end are you able to receive correctly?

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Good idea. Try looping putty 1 to putty 2