[LEDE-DEV] Serial data getting lost - bug or a feature?

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi Piotr,
I'm using internal uart, but I have disabled cron from writing to
serial console, and also disabled serial as login tty.

Cheers,
Valent.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Valent,
>
>
> On 16.10.2017 22:04, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm working with Lede on ar71xx platform (Carambola2 wifi module) to
>> gather sensor data over serial, save it and transfer it to "could".
>>
>> Previous firmware was based on OpenWrt Chaos Calmer but latest one is
>> based upon Lede 17.01.01. I'll test it also with 17.01.03 soon.
>>
>> What I have discovered is that now with using Lede sometimes there are
>> missing characters while reading data from serial connection.
>>
>> Data is not constantly being read, but sensor device is logging data
>> usually for 8 hours and then data is read via serial in one big
>> "download". During these downloads I have never seen a character go
>> missing while Chaos Calmer was used.
>>
>> What was even stranger is that sometimes I did get these "bad logs"
>> (ie ones with few missing characters) but sometimes log download went
>> perfectly!
>>
>> After some head scratching and troubleshooting I managed to reproduce
>> this "bug" 100% and it was due to wifi! But only if wifi was enabled
>> and not being used!
>>
>> So if radio was enabled, in sta mode but not connected to AP errors
>> would happen! It I would disable wifi or if radio was associated with
>> AP then there would be no errors during reading data from serial
>> connection.
>>
>> Is there any explanation for this behaviour? Is this a bug or a
>> feature? Is there any change between OpenWrt CC version and Lede that
>> could explain this?
>
>
> Are you using AR9331 built-in UART or some external, USB to UART adapter?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Piotr
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any insight and answers,
>> Valent.
>>
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