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pari88
Joined: 28 Feb 2011
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| pic to pic communication using rs232 |
 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:54 pm |
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Hi guys,
I am new to this forum. Could you all please give some opinion about my codes. I don't know whether it is correct or not. I want to transmit data from PIC 1 to PIC 2 using rf module. Then transmit the data to PC using rs232. I am using PIC18F4550. TX and RX(433MHz). Thank you.
Tx code:
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#include <18F4550.h>
#use delay(clock=20000000)
#fuses INTRC_IO, NOWDT, NOPUT, NOBROWNOUT, MCLR, NOLVP, NOPROTECT
#use rs232(baud=9600, xmit=PIN_C6, rcv=PIN_C7, ERRORS, STREAM=COM_B)
#define PIN_A0=COM_B
void main()
{
while(1)
{
getc(COM_B);
delay_ms(20);
putc('T');
delay_ms(20);
output_high(PIN_A1);
delay_ms(100);
output_low(PIN_A1);
delay_ms(100);
}
}
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Rx code:
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#include <18F4550.h>
#use delay(clock=20000000)
#fuses INTRC_IO, NOWDT, PUT, BROWNOUT, MCLR, NOLVP, NOPROTECT
#use rs232(baud=9600,xmit=PIN_C6,rcv=PIN_C7,parity=N,bits=8,ERRORS,STREAM=COM_A)
unsigned int8 data;
int1 flag=0;
#int_rda
void rd_isr(void)
{
//disable_interrupts(INT_RDA); // Disable Serial Recieve Interrupt
//disable_interrupts(GLOBAL); // Disable Global Interrupts
data= fgetc(COM_A);
if(data=='T')
{
flag=1;
}
//enable_interrupts(GLOBAL);
//enable_interrupts(INT_RDA);
}
void main()
{
enable_interrupts(global);
enable_interrupts(int_rda);
while(true)
{
if(flag==1)
{
output_high(PIN_B6);
delay_ms(100);
output_low(PIN_B6);
delay_ms(100);
flag=0;
}
else
{
delay_ms(100);
delay_ms(20);
fputc(0x55,COM_A);
fputc(0x00,COM_A);
fputc(0xFF,COM_A);
delay_us(80);
fputc('T',COM_A);
delay_ms(20);
delay_ms(100);
}
output_high(PIN_B2);
delay_ms(100);
output_low(PIN_B2);
delay_ms(100);
}
} |
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atai21
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:02 am |
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| Can you show me the circuit? |
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SherpaDoug
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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Location: Cape Cod Mass USA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:54 pm |
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Could you give us a description of what you expect the code to do? Also can you tell us what type of RF circuits you are using? Note that RF links are famous for giving lots of garbage characters, especially nulls, along with the desired data.
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temtronic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Posts: 9225
Location: Greensville,Ontario
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:21 pm |
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Break up the project into smaller projects.
Forget about the RF sections and just hardwire the two PICs and test your code that way. You'll save a LOT of time. Once you have them working properly then add the RF modules and see what happens.
At least then if it doesn't work, you know it's in the RF section and not the original code. |
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pari88
Joined: 28 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:37 pm |
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| Quote: | | Could you give us a description of what you expect the code to do? Also can you tell us what type of RF circuits you are using? Note that RF links are famous for giving lots of garbage characters, especially nulls, along with the desired data. |
I want to transmit data from a sensor to PIC 1 then to PIC 2 then to PC through rs232. From PIC 1 to PIC 2, I used a transmitter and a receiver with 433MHz.
| Quote: | Break up the project into smaller projects.
Forget about the RF sections and just hardwire the two PICs and test your code that way. You'll save a LOT of time. Once you have them working properly then add the RF modules and see what happens.
At least then if it doesn't work, you know it's in the RF section and not the original code. |
Ok. I will take your advice. |
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altanonat
Joined: 07 Feb 2011
Posts: 21
Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:35 am |
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| If you are using cheap 433 mhz rf modules, the baudrate you are using is very high. I am also doing a project like this using pic18f4550. I can only be successful by adjusting baudrate to 300 with 20 mhz crystal. |
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Douglas Kennedy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Posts: 755
Location: Florida
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:42 am |
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An issue to examine with PIC to PIC communications is whether you are going to be asynchronous or synchronous. An interrupt driven receive with a circular buffer is almost needed every time if reliable results are expected with asynchronous setups. It looks like this project is synchronous with a master sending "T" and the slave only transmitting when it receives it. This means the receiver can rely in the hardware buffer ( last char received) in the PIC uart to capture the "T". The receiver must process this and let the transmitter know it has a one char buffer available again. It is never a good idea to put delays or printf statements in a RDA ISR ( this code avoids this no no). The RF will most likely mess up chars. The transmitter needs to know if the receiver got the char and the receiver needs to process a messed up char and request a retransmission. The receiver and the transmitter may need to exchange greetings on startup the 3 way hand shake might be used... Hello ...hello back ... thanks for the hello back. It helps to plan this before beginning coding. Test the simplest possible transfer
then proceed to further coding. Don't try to swallow the whale eat a byte ( pun for bite) at a time. |
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