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Receiving data from UART via a peripheral device

Hi

I am working with a Nordic nrf52840dk using segge and sdk 16.

I am using the nordic UART example in examples/peripheral/uart.

The issue I am having is that my data being sent to this device can not be read from the nordic board.

Below is an example of the code going into my Putty terminal from my UART peripheral device.

1,1183,1,1169
1,1183,1,1169
1,1183,1,1169
1,1183,1,1169
1,1183,1,1169
1,1183,1,1169

This device has 4 wire connections RX,TX,CTS and RTS. My connections are listed below:

Note this is the default.

#define RX_PIN_NUMBER  8
#define TX_PIN_NUMBER  6
#define CTS_PIN_NUMBER 7
#define RTS_PIN_NUMBER 5

The first thing i tried was running the code with no change to see if app_uart_get(&cr) would pull this data. Unfortunately it did not. It does however, pull data that i type into the terminal.

What I want to do is to take this data from the UART(Sensor data) and store it as a variable for handling later on.

I which to know how I can pull this data from the serial connection.

Side note when the device (UART) is plugged in printing from putty does not run. If I unplug the device then printing works fine.  Below is my main code (from example).

int main(void)
{
    uint32_t err_code;

    bsp_board_init(BSP_INIT_LEDS);

    const app_uart_comm_params_t comm_params =
      {
          RX_PIN_NUMBER,
          TX_PIN_NUMBER,
          RTS_PIN_NUMBER,
          CTS_PIN_NUMBER,
          UART_HWFC,
          false,
#if defined (UARTE_PRESENT)
          NRF_UARTE_BAUDRATE_115200
#else
          NRF_UARTE_BAUDRATE_115200
#endif
/*
#if defined (UART_PRESENT)
          NRF_UART_BAUDRATE_115200
#else
          NRF_UARTE_BAUDRATE_115200
#endif
*/
      };

    APP_UART_FIFO_INIT(&comm_params,
                         UART_RX_BUF_SIZE,
                         UART_TX_BUF_SIZE,
                         uart_error_handle,
                         APP_IRQ_PRIORITY_HIGH,
                         //APP_IRQ_PRIORITY_LOWEST,
                         err_code);

    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

#ifndef ENABLE_LOOPBACK_TEST
    printf("\r\nUART example started.\r\n");

    while (true)
    {
        uint8_t cr;
        while (app_uart_get(&cr) != NRF_SUCCESS);
        while (app_uart_put(cr) != NRF_SUCCESS);

        if (cr == 'q' || cr == 'Q')
        {
            printf(" \r\nExit!\r\n");

            while (true)
            {
                // Do nothing.
            }
        }
    }
#else

    // This part of the example is just for testing the loopback .
    while (true)
    {
        uart_loopback_test();
    }
#endif
}

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  • Hi,

    I checked your application, and the problem is that you don't process logs in your main loop, so, therefore, you should set NRF_LOG_DEFERRED to 0 in your projects sdk_config.h. With that in place, the RTT log is output correctly.

    (I also noticed that you added include paths for specific files rather than for the whole project. Instead of modifying the options for app_uart_fifo.c and main.c, you should instead have added it to the project-wide include path (from Project -> Options...). Not that it really matters, but that is cleaner and easier than adding it for specific files, and is what is done in all our example projects.)

  • Ok thanks, that seemed to work. Now I'll try merging my ble_Advert code with it

  • Ok I've merged them and get a fatal error. Here is my RTT+ beacon code(main) This works when i remove the line advertising_mod:

    int main(void)
    {
        uint32_t err_code;
        char string[MAX_TEST_DATA_BYTES];
        char c;
        int pos;
        
        T1_data_1 = 0;T1_data_2 = 0;T2_data_1 = 0;T2_data_2 = 0;T3_data_1 = 0;
        T3_data_2 = 0;P1_data_1 = 0;P1_data_2 = 0;P2_data_1 = 0;P2_data_2 = 0;
        // Initialize.
        timers_init();
        leds_init();
        power_management_init();
        ble_stack_init();
        advertising_init();
        //hfxo_enable();
    
        log_init();
    
        NRF_LOG_INFO("UART example started.");
    
        bsp_board_init(BSP_INIT_LEDS);
    
        const app_uart_comm_params_t comm_params =
          {
              RX_PIN_NUMBER,
              TX_PIN_NUMBER,
              RTS_PIN_NUMBER,
              CTS_PIN_NUMBER,
              UART_HWFC,
              false,
    #if defined (UART_PRESENT)
              NRF_UART_BAUDRATE_115200
    #else
              NRF_UARTE_BAUDRATE_115200
    #endif
          };
        APP_UART_FIFO_INIT(&comm_params,
                             UART_RX_BUF_SIZE,
                             UART_TX_BUF_SIZE,
                             uart_error_handle,
                             APP_IRQ_PRIORITY_LOWEST,
                             err_code);
    
        APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
        pos = 0;
        //UART get code RTT RX code
        while (true)
        {
            // Get next gyte from FIFO
            while (app_uart_get(&c) != NRF_SUCCESS);
            string[pos] = c;
            // Assume that all strings end with \n. If end, print and start over.
            if (string[pos] == '\n')
            {
                string[pos+1] = '\0';
                NRF_LOG_INFO("Received string: \"%s\"", string);
                pos = 0;
            }
            else
            {
                pos++;
            }
           
            //nrf_delay_ms(1000);//Delay 1 second
            counter++;
            idle_state_handle();
            data_changed = true;
            if(data_changed==true)
            {
              advertising_mod(counter,T1_data_1,T1_data_2,T2_data_1,T2_data_2,00,00,70,80,70,80);//Only have two temperature sensors
              data_changed = false;
            }
        }
    }

    Here is my other beacon code. This outputs a ble_advert and increments a counter. This can be seen using nrf connect.

    int main(void)
    {
       
        bool erase_bonds;
    
        T1_data_1 = 0;T1_data_2 = 0;T2_data_1 = 0;T2_data_2 = 0;T3_data_1 = 0;
        T3_data_2 = 0;P1_data_1 = 0;P1_data_2 = 0;P2_data_1 = 0;P2_data_2 = 0;
        
        // Initialize.
        uart_init();
        log_init();
        timers_init();
        buttons_leds_init(&erase_bonds);
        power_management_init();
        ble_stack_init();
        gap_params_init();
        gatt_init();
        services_init();
        advertising_init();
        conn_params_init();
        bsp_board_led_invert(2);
        // Start execution.
        //printf("\r\nUART started.\r\n");
        
        NRF_LOG_INFO("Debug logging for UART over RTT started.");
        advertising_start();
        advertising_mod(counter,00,00,00,00,00,00,70,80,70,80);//Only have two temperature sensors
        // Enter main loop.
        for (;;)
        {
            nrf_delay_ms(1000);
            //printf("Test\n\r");//Works if the uart board is disconnected
            //printf("Test");//Works if the uart board is disconnecte
            counter ++;
            idle_state_handle();
            data_changed = true;
            if(data_changed==true)
            {
              printf("data changed value is: %d\r\n",data_changed);
              advertising_mod(counter,T1_data_1,T1_data_2,T2_data_1,T2_data_2,00,00,70,80,70,80);//Only have two temperature sensors
              data_changed = false;
              printf("data changed value is: %d\r\n",data_changed);
            }
        }
    }

    I need to figure a way to merge them and have them both run.

  • I see. Generally, you need to debug and see what the fatal error is. If you enable debug builds (Select Debug instead of release from the build target configuration dropdown) and have RTT logging enabled, you will get the error code and location printed in the log. Most of the times this will imediately tell you what the problem is.

  • I get NRF_FAULT_ID_SDK_ERROR 0x0000000000004001.

    This comes from NRF_DRV_UART_EVT_TX_DONE: within the app_uart_fifo.c.

    When it runs the m_event_handler

    This runs from the line of code:

    err_code = ble_advdata_encode(&advdata, m_adv_data.adv_data.p_data, &m_adv_data.adv_data.len);
        APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

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