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Troubleshoot Raspberry Pi Serial Port

Missing or Garbled Data

When you try to exchange data with the serial device, the data is garbled or missing.

write(myserialdevice,[10 12],'uint16')

Creating a connection and writing data to a serial device does not provide any indication of success or failure.

The device is not connected to the Raspberry Pi® serial port. Or, the connection to the serial device is not configured correctly.

To solve this issue, do the following:

  • Verify the physical connection between the Rx and Tx pins and their counterparts on the serial device.

  • Verify the serial port settings that the serial device requires. Clear the handle for the current serial connection. Create a new connection that uses the correct serial port settings.

  • Verify the data precision that the serial device requires. Write data using the correct serial port settings.