Re: [Bitpim-devel] serial problem on Mac?

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> Note the last two lines of each log.  It appears that the first byte 
> (hex 59) is dropped in the response from the phone.

Ok.  Bitpim doesn't currently check the results of data coming back,
especially not the CRC.  I should probably do that at some point.
 
I do know that the code in pyserial does clear buffers a lot.  I also
know that the phone is somewhat buggy.  If you actually know anything 
about commport programing, you may want to have a closer look at
the pyserial code.  I have interacted with the author a few times.
He mainly uses it with simple devices and several minute timeouts.

> How reliable is the serial communication on 
> the Windows side?

I would put a number on it like 98%.  It is extremely rare for me
to have problems on Windows.  (I use Win98SE with phone firmware 04).
On Linux I do have more problems, but usually at the begining after
I have just unplugged phone from Windows while bitpim was using it
and connected to Linux.

I think the pyserial code is shared between Linux and Mac.

Roger