I'm trying to communicate an RS232 device with an ESP32 (Heltec Wifi/LoRa 32 v2) my problem is that I don't receive any response from the device, doing some research, I'm thinking that the trouble can be the flow control because I don't use these pins and the modules I've used neither have these pins. Do you know a way to, at least, solder the DB9 pins to have a sort of flow control to communicate the devices?
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What kind of device are you trying to communicate with? – StarCat Mar 6 at 14:32
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2Also: do you use a TTL->RS232 converter? – StarCat Mar 6 at 14:39
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This can only be answered by looking at the data sheet of "the RS232 device". You can emulate RTS/CTS flow control by connecting them to two unused GPIO pins and then taking care of them in your own code while sending data back and forth. Also, a real RS232 interface communicates on signal levels between 3 and 15V, so if you are not absolutely sure that "the RS232 device" answers on a signal level of less than 3.6V, you will absolutely need a level shifter. Better use a dedicated RS232 shield for that -- which is the only answer I can give from the information in the question. – orithena Mar 6 at 21:28
You could use ESP-IDF calls to setup your UART correctly for hardware serial communication on pin 4 and 5 (and perhaps also other pins).
In the sample below, you just have to:
- assign
UART_CLIENT_RTSandUART_CLIENT_CTSto the pins of your need - change
uart_config_tto whichever parameters are relevant for your RS232 device - set
flow_ctrltoUART_HW_FLOWCTRL_RTS,UART_HW_FLOWCTRL_CTS,UART_HW_FLOWCTRL_CTS_RTSorUART_HW_FLOWCTRL_MAX
#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024
#define UART_CLIENT_TXD (GPIO_NUM_4)
#define UART_CLIENT_RXD (GPIO_NUM_5)
#define UART_CLIENT_RTS (GPIO_NUM_?) // Set this
#define UART_CLIENT_CTS (GPIO_NUM_?) // Set this
uart_port_t uartNum = UART_NUM_1;
uart_config_t uart_config = { // Set this
.baud_rate = 115200,
.data_bits = UART_DATA_8_BITS,
.parity = UART_PARITY_DISABLE,
.stop_bits = UART_STOP_BITS_1,
.flow_ctrl = UART_HW_FLOWCTRL_CTS_RTS
};
uart_param_config(uartNum, &uart_config);
uart_set_pin(uartNum, UART_CLIENT_TXD, UART_CLIENT_RXD, UART_CLIENT_RTS, UART_CLIENT_CTS);
uart_driver_install(uartNum, BUFFER_SIZE * 2, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
Communication can be done with the various uart_write_* and uart_read_* methods as defined in the documentation.
