I'm trying to use pyserial to send data to an arduino. But when I open the COM port it sets DTR low and resets the board. However, I have my arduino code setup such that I have to put it into serial receive mode by holding two buttons for 1 second. I would rather not have to do the serial input on boot of the arduino, if possible.
Apparently you can modify serialWin32.py file, changing the line that reads:
self._dtrState = win32.DTR_CONTROL_ENABLE
to:
self._dtrState = win32.DTR_CONTROL_DISABLE
But, is there a way to just disable this directly in my python script? I also need to do this for all systems. I would rather not force people to change their base serial config just to use this script.
The serial port is opened as follows:
com = serial.Serial(port, baud, timeout=1);
Update: In the end I found a solution that works fine for my setup. Since I didn't need to do Serial data all the time, only when I put the device into serial receive mode I found a way to disable the reset on serial connect from the arduino itself.
Many posts have said you can disable DTR reset by placing a ~100 Ohm resistor between 5V and reset. But I didn't want this to be a permanent thing. So, instead I placed a resistor between PD5 and reset. Then, in software:
void setup() {
//.......
DDRD &= ~(_BV(PD5)); //Set PD5 as input initially
PORTD |= (_BV(PD5)); //Set high
//.......
}
inline void setResetDisable(bool state)
{
if(state)
DDRD |= (_BV(PD5)); //Set PD5 as output to put 5V on reset line
else
DDRD &= ~(_BV(PD5)); //set back to input mode
}
So now, when I want to be in serial mode, I call setResetDisable(true) which throws 5V on that 100 ohm resistor and the reset pin, preventing DTR from pulling it low and resetting the chip :)
I then just call setResetDisable(false) when I leave serial mode so the chip can be programmed as normal.
Locus :
This is an old topic, but I'm working on a program sending serial data to an arduino right now. This is the line that works reliably for me:\nser = serial.Serial(port = 'COM4', baudrate = 115200, timeout = 0.1, dsrdtr=None)\n\nNote: the arg is "dsrdtr" and the param is "None", not "False"\ntested on:\nPython 3.8.8, anaconda 3 (2021.05), pyserial 3.5\nArduino Mega2560, MKR WiFi 1010, Wemos Mega2560 + ESP8266",
2021-12-01T17:52:48
Matthew Murdoch :
You ought to be able to disable DTR before opening the port, like this:\n\ncom = serial.Serial()\ncom.port = port\ncom.baudrate = baud\ncom.timeout = 1\ncom.setDTR(False)\ncom.open()\n\n\nHowever, doing so on the current release of pyserial (2.6) on Windows throws the following exception:\n\n..., line 315, in setDTR\nValueError: Attempting to use a port that is already open\n\n\nThis seems to be a bug which is fixed in the latest version of the source, SVN revision 445 on 29th December 2011 (see http://pyserial.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pyserial/trunk/pyserial/serial/serialwin32.py?view=log) with comment:\n\n\n allow setRTS, setDTR before opening on Win32 (to set initial state), doc update\n\n\nWhich looks like it may have just missed the 2.6 release (uploaded on 2nd November 2011 see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial).\n\nFurthermore, looking at the current implementation of setDTR() for POSIX (in serialposix.py) it looks like this bug is not fixed and an exception is thrown if the port is not open, so a cross-platform solution looks unlikely.",
2013-03-18T14:21:17
iman :
Disabling DTR does not work for me:\nser.dtr = None\n(Linux 4.4.0 x86_64 / Python 2.7.12 / PySerial 3.4)\n\nBut this works:\n\nimport serial\nimport termios\n\nport = '/dev/ttyACM0'\nf = open(port)\nattrs = termios.tcgetattr(f)\nattrs[2] = attrs[2] & ~termios.HUPCL\ntermios.tcsetattr(f, termios.TCSAFLUSH, attrs)\nf.close()\nse = serial.Serial()\nse.baudrate = 115200\nse.port = port\nprint 'dtr =', se.dtr\nse.open()\n\n\nI found it here.",
2017-08-03T04:49:05
Michael :
The method you describe seems to be the most common fix for this problem that I've seen - so I suspect that there's no simpler software-based solution. You can of course manually change the state of the DTR line using ser.setDTR(level) - however I haven't tried this specifically in the case of the Arduino autoreset, and I suspect that even toggling the line immediately after opening the serial port may not be fast enough to prevent the reset.\n\nThe other options I can see that you have available would be to prevent the autoreset of the Arduino in hardware (see here), or to change your code slightly so that you allow the Arduino to reboot after initially making the serial connection, and then when you manually trigger your serial receive mode send an initial signal from the Arduino to show that it is now ready to receive data. Or alternatively you could include a modified version of the pySerial library with your script.",
2013-03-18T13:37:26