Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Michael M mmcdani...@gmail.com wrote: The frequency of your data(based on your sample) doesn't necessarily require a 115kbps transmission rate. Good point. People from 3D printing word normally use 250Kbps because this is fast and has lower error rate than 115Kbps for the crystal frequency used on Arduinos. Although this data rate is not standard, newer kernels and python support it very well. Sure that 3D Printers need faster communication so 9600 is out of question that leads to choose non standard data rates. It is more likely that Chris application will work well on 9600bps. regards, Benito -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days
Hi everyone! I've got my BBB rev. C set up as a data logger for a serial data stream from an Arduino. It basically takes this data, uploads it to xively, and checks certain values for exceeded thresholds and sends an email if found. This works fine. However, after the script has been running for several days, it stops working. The script itself seems to continue running, but it stops acknowledging that it's receiving any data or trying to upload to xively. If I ctrl+c out of the script and restart it, it starts working fine again. The device it's connected to continues to work properly regardless of whether the BBB is logging anything, so I don't believe that the problem is with it. Is there any way to determine where the problem lies? (BBB, python, etc.?) Here's a copy of my code (please don't mock it too much, I'm a Python noob) : http://susepaste.org/399d9d1f (This is what the data looks like if it makes any difference: 2014-08-31 20:51:38.841985 91,h,44 2014-08-31 20:51:40.063139 92,t,72 2014-08-31 20:51:44.727206 92,h,42 2014-08-31 20:51:45.463794 90,t,71 2014-08-31 20:52:17.112091 90,h,44 ...) I've Googled around, and haven't really found anything regarding something like this. There were a couple of random bulletin board posts that seemed similar, but they all went off into no-answer-land. Thanks in advance :) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days
Hi Chris, I don't think the problem is related to the serial port itself. I have a python code that uses 4 serial ports of BBB (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05) running without any problem for months. I saw your code. If it reaches the Dropping out due to an error: , I don't think it will keep running. Use the logging module to write to a file when there is an exception: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging.html Use repr() instead of the str() to show the error, as it returns a string containing a printable representation of an object., and it is easier to see what's wrong. https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#func-repr If you catch the problem with the logging module, send an email and I can help you with more details. Miguel On 31-08-2014 22:55, chrismyer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! I've got my BBB rev. C set up as a data logger for a serial data stream from an Arduino. It basically takes this data, uploads it to xively, and checks certain values for exceeded thresholds and sends an email if found. This works fine. However, after the script has been running for several days, it stops working. The script itself seems to continue running, but it stops acknowledging that it's receiving any data or trying to upload to xively. If I ctrl+c out of the script and restart it, it starts working fine again. The device it's connected to continues to work properly regardless of whether the BBB is logging anything, so I don't believe that the problem is with it. Is there any way to determine where the problem lies? (BBB, python, etc.?) Here's a copy of my code (please don't mock it too much, I'm a Python noob) : http://susepaste.org/399d9d1f (This is what the data looks like if it makes any difference: 2014-08-31 20:51:38.841985 91,h,44 2014-08-31 20:51:40.063139 92,t,72 2014-08-31 20:51:44.727206 92,h,42 2014-08-31 20:51:45.463794 90,t,71 2014-08-31 20:52:17.112091 90,h,44 ...) I've Googled around, and haven't really found anything regarding something like this. There were a couple of random bulletin board posts that seemed similar, but they all went off into no-answer-land. Thanks in advance :) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days
I think Miguel's logging idea is the best way to know exactly what's going on. Some additional thoughts: Based on code, if your program stops receiving data but still runs then it is probably infinitely blocking at arduino.readline(). The fact that you don't see output from print(line) or print str(LAST_UPDATED) further supports that. Perhaps there was a transmission error at some point and the two went out of sync(eg the stop bit is never detected)? When you restart the script(and re-establish the serial connection), things work fine. You could try... -Lowering the baud rate. You can check the AVR data sheet, but I think the Arduino's error rate is higher for 115kbps than for say 9600bps. The frequency of your data(based on your sample) doesn't necessarily require a 115kbps transmission rate. -Adding a timeout to the serial.Serial() constructor. Then do something like: while True: line = None line = arduino.readline() if line is None: arduino.close() arduino = serial.Serial(...) else: #Do all the Xively/email stuff (This is just a guess, since I don't know exactly what timeout does: raise an error, returns None, returns junk? You'll have to experiment.) Hope that helps. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 7:23:28 AM UTC-7, Miguel Aveiro wrote: Hi Chris, I don't think the problem is related to the serial port itself. I have a python code that uses 4 serial ports of BBB (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05) running without any problem for months. I saw your code. If it reaches the Dropping out due to an error: , I don't think it will keep running. Use the logging module to write to a file when there is an exception: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging.html Use repr() instead of the str() to show the error, as it returns a string containing a printable representation of an object., and it is easier to see what's wrong. https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#func-repr If you catch the problem with the logging module, send an email and I can help you with more details. Miguel On 31-08-2014 22:55, chrism...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi everyone! I've got my BBB rev. C set up as a data logger for a serial data stream from an Arduino. It basically takes this data, uploads it to xively, and checks certain values for exceeded thresholds and sends an email if found. This works fine. However, after the script has been running for several days, it stops working. The script itself seems to continue running, but it stops acknowledging that it's receiving any data or trying to upload to xively. If I ctrl+c out of the script and restart it, it starts working fine again. The device it's connected to continues to work properly regardless of whether the BBB is logging anything, so I don't believe that the problem is with it. Is there any way to determine where the problem lies? (BBB, python, etc.?) Here's a copy of my code (please don't mock it too much, I'm a Python noob) : http://susepaste.org/399d9d1f (This is what the data looks like if it makes any difference: 2014-08-31 20:51:38.841985 91,h,44 2014-08-31 20:51:40.063139 92,t,72 2014-08-31 20:51:44.727206 92,h,42 2014-08-31 20:51:45.463794 90,t,71 2014-08-31 20:52:17.112091 90,h,44 ...) I've Googled around, and haven't really found anything regarding something like this. There were a couple of random bulletin board posts that seemed similar, but they all went off into no-answer-land. Thanks in advance :) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [beagleboard] Python script stops reading serial port after several days
I should add that the timeout should be larger than the largest expected gap between each data transmission. For example if you expect data coming in every minute, then set the timeout to be 2 minutes. If no data comes in for 2 minutes, then you know something is wrong. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:29:12 PM UTC-7, Michael M wrote: I think Miguel's logging idea is the best way to know exactly what's going on. Some additional thoughts: Based on code, if your program stops receiving data but still runs then it is probably infinitely blocking at arduino.readline(). The fact that you don't see output from print(line) or print str(LAST_UPDATED) further supports that. Perhaps there was a transmission error at some point and the two went out of sync(eg the stop bit is never detected)? When you restart the script(and re-establish the serial connection), things work fine. You could try... -Lowering the baud rate. You can check the AVR data sheet, but I think the Arduino's error rate is higher for 115kbps than for say 9600bps. The frequency of your data(based on your sample) doesn't necessarily require a 115kbps transmission rate. -Adding a timeout to the serial.Serial() constructor. Then do something like: while True: line = None line = arduino.readline() if line is None: arduino.close() arduino = serial.Serial(...) else: #Do all the Xively/email stuff (This is just a guess, since I don't know exactly what timeout does: raise an error, returns None, returns junk? You'll have to experiment.) Hope that helps. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 7:23:28 AM UTC-7, Miguel Aveiro wrote: Hi Chris, I don't think the problem is related to the serial port itself. I have a python code that uses 4 serial ports of BBB (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05) running without any problem for months. I saw your code. If it reaches the Dropping out due to an error: , I don't think it will keep running. Use the logging module to write to a file when there is an exception: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging.html Use repr() instead of the str() to show the error, as it returns a string containing a printable representation of an object., and it is easier to see what's wrong. https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#func-repr If you catch the problem with the logging module, send an email and I can help you with more details. Miguel On 31-08-2014 22:55, chrism...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! I've got my BBB rev. C set up as a data logger for a serial data stream from an Arduino. It basically takes this data, uploads it to xively, and checks certain values for exceeded thresholds and sends an email if found. This works fine. However, after the script has been running for several days, it stops working. The script itself seems to continue running, but it stops acknowledging that it's receiving any data or trying to upload to xively. If I ctrl+c out of the script and restart it, it starts working fine again. The device it's connected to continues to work properly regardless of whether the BBB is logging anything, so I don't believe that the problem is with it. Is there any way to determine where the problem lies? (BBB, python, etc.?) Here's a copy of my code (please don't mock it too much, I'm a Python noob) : http://susepaste.org/399d9d1f (This is what the data looks like if it makes any difference: 2014-08-31 20:51:38.841985 91,h,44 2014-08-31 20:51:40.063139 92,t,72 2014-08-31 20:51:44.727206 92,h,42 2014-08-31 20:51:45.463794 90,t,71 2014-08-31 20:52:17.112091 90,h,44 ...) I've Googled around, and haven't really found anything regarding something like this. There were a couple of random bulletin board posts that seemed similar, but they all went off into no-answer-land. Thanks in advance :) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
