STM32f030C8 UART Interrupt

[chipfryer27]

Hi

It turns out I do have a chip, the "R8" which appears to be the big brother of the "C8". It is on a development board I bought a while back. Not sure if I have used it yet though.

If I still have it I'll try and see if I have similar issues.

Regards

[Alan_37]

Hi ,

I would like to explain what this project is going to be about .

I am developing a data Analyzer for split type air-conditioners
data communication analyzer , recorder and playback
between the indoor and outdoor unit .

I was able to make this work but I felt like trying to reinvent the wheel , it got ridiculously complicated just to receive
a string and send it back, the macro receive string and send string should have done this as it dose on other targets
like stm32f4 , Atmega328 and 2560 .

[mnfisher]

Can you try:

RXTest.fcfx

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Attempting to read a string on UART (1200baud) - with a newline character ('\n' or 10) as end marker - depending how you send the string you might need to change this...

Martin

[Alan_37]

Hi Martin ,

Thanks for your reply ,

split type air-conditioners Example GREE : communicate using 20 Hex bytes @1200 baud every 500ms , and the last byte
is a CheckSum8 Modulo 256 so it is expected to be always different unless nothing changes in the data .

So there is no end marker in the data ,but I will defiantly take a look at your flow see what I can steal from it .

Regards ,

Alan

[mnfisher]

If it's a fixed number of bytes then check 'pos' in the interrupt handler - if you've received 20 bytes then 'stop' (pos = 20 after increment (make buffer bigger and remove the % 20) - process the data and then resume.

This, of course, doesn't allow for transmission errors, timeouts etc - so will need a little extra checking to handle these (in a perfect world - life would be simpler?)

Martin

[chipfryer27]

Hi

Just checked my board. Last night I looked online and the info suggested my chip would be similar to yours, but it's actually a STM32F446RET6.

I'll still have a play but it will be later in the week.

Regards

[mnfisher]

I tested on a Nucleo-F401RE which is as near as I can get. 8Mhz at least?

I swapped to Channel 2 to try and use the Rx Tx pins on A2 and A3 - I couldn't read/write on Tx / Rx pins (using an FTDI chip) - but it did work connecting to the USB port on the board (in my case COM3) with putty.

I modified slightly to display the string on 20 chars received and set an LED on A5 on on interrupt - when displaying the string it turns the LED off again.

It seems to work - but if data is sent whilst printing the string then it stops working (LED no longer lights - interrupt not fired). This is a danger when mashing the keyboard and at such a slow baud rate..

RXTest.fcfx

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[Alan_37]

Hi

I have solved this issue using a circular Buffer , it is now working 100% without any issues .

Thanks to everyone for the help

Regards

Alan