Hearsay 2.25.04

I’ve released a new version of Hearsay.

It fixes serial ports not working and adds setting baudrates higher than 115200 – if the device supports it.

It fixes serial ports not working and adds setting baudrates higher than 115200 – if the device supports it.

Running at the default speed for Rockchip , 1500K.
Thanks a lot for this!

Is that the serial port on a pinebook?

Does it show on riscos as serial1 ?

The pi and armx6 seem to limit the serial devices to 115k I expected at least 230400 in the armx6 as it can do handshaking. It’s possibly more understandable that a pi is limited to 115200 as it doesn’t do handshaking

Running at the default speed for Rockchip , 1500K.

Have you found something to connect it to at that speed?

limited to 115200 as it doesn’t do handshaking

The default bootloader in the ESP32 connects at 115Kbps. When connected to the flash utility, it will – by default – bump the speed up to 916Kbps (or is it 926? I forget…).
I can flash this from my mobile phone using a crappy generic USB to 3.3v serial adapter.

I used to routinely use 230Kbps with a Serial Port dual serial podule in the RiscPC.

So, really, there shouldn’t be any reason to limit to 115,200 unless there’s no UART and one is bit bashing the protocol…

The rockchip boards all use 1500K for debug uart. I don’t think it is usable for general use, yet. Pinebooks uses the headphone output for serial if I hw switch enables it.

I was able to reprogram my SH-B30 (bluetooh serial adapter) to the speed of 460800 Bauds. With a USB Serial FTDI I was able to connect with Hearsay at this speed.
Using my Samsung + the Serial Bluetooth Terminal application, we can chat between the two devices at a good distance, several meters.
I was able to upload a file from my samsung to ARMX6 at this speed using Hearsay, this is getting interesting.

@Colin
Good job, on the ARMX6 with this version, the two ports serial2 and 3 are no longer accessible via the menu…same error as in a previous version?
No problem with the serial1 port and the USB port.

I was able to reprogram my SH-B30 (bluetooh serial adapter) to the speed of 460800 Bauds. With a USB Serial FTDI I was able to connect with Hearsay at this speed.

What I could do with is a bluetooth hid adapter so I could use a bluetooth keyboard with riscos. I was wondering if a pico would do it as that seems to be able to be a hid device.

The two ports serial2 and 3 are no longer accessible via the menu.

Odd I enumerate devices: to find serial devices. What does *cat devices: show?

What I could do with is a bluetooth hid adapter so I could use a bluetooth keyboard with riscos.

My keyboard uses a Bluetooth adapter, with special keys that are managed by !Hid.
If there are Bluetooth remote control apps from the smartphone that would be interesting, we should be able to use it without going through !Hearsay? (just an idea)

When transferring with the phone, the phone finds the SH-B30 as a Bluetooth device, but does not want to connect to it. On the other hand, no problem with the Serial Bluetooth Terminal application and Hearsay.

Is there an application with RISC OS that can receive files from a Bluetooth device?

Odd I enumerate devices: to find serial devices. What does *cat devices: show?

Dir. devices:$ Option 00 (Off) 
CSD  devices:"Unset"
Lib. devices:"Unset"
URD  devices:"Unset"
Serial1      WR/     Serial2      WR/     Serial3      WR/     SerialUSB    WR/     USB1         WR/     USB10        WR/  

Serial ports 1/2/3 are also seen by serial port monitor.

Put the program below in a file and type it as ’HsyScrip"

Run Hearsay then double click on the file. Are all the serial devices listed?

void main(void)
{
  string s;
  tprints("|L");
  startscan();
  while(nextobject("devices:$", "Serial*", s))
  {
    tprints(s);
    tprints("\r\n");
  }
}

if that works try:

void main(void)
{
  string s;
  string file;
  int f;
  tprints("|L");
  startscan();
  while(nextobject("devices:$", "Serial*", s))
  {
    file = "devices:$."+s;
    f = fileopen(file,"r");
    if (f)
    {
        fileclose(f);
        tprints(s);
        tprints("\r\n");
    }
  }
}

@Colin
The two test programs report the 3 serial ports.
The second opens and closes ports.

Error message: Hearsay… an internal error type = 5

I assume you have no error.

No I don’t and I’m on an armx6 too. Do they both give the error message?

The error is a bad memory access. Do you have zeropain running? if so it may help track down the problem if it is a zero page access.