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Pico with HC-05 - how do you get it to work?

gregaryb
gregaryb over 2 years ago

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I am using GP17 and GP16 as Rx and Tx connected directly to the HC-05 Tx and Rx pins (cross connected)
I am powering the HC-05 with 5V from the Pico Vbus pin.

I have a voltage trimpot divider on the HC-05 pin Tx pin to make sure the voltage stays under 3.3V.
I am connecting to the HC-05 with Android SerialBluetooth app and sending "XXXXX" with carriage return and new line.

Code on my Pico running in Thony on Windows 10

But it just isn't working. There is not data received in Thonny.

With Arduino all this (with equivalent C) just works.

So what am I missing with Pico and micropython?

from MotorControllerLibrary import *
from machine import UART, Pin
import time

# enable     GP2
# in1         GP3
# in2        GP4
# enable    GP6
# in3        GP7
# in4        GP8
serial = UART(0, baudrate = 9600, tx = Pin(16), rx = Pin(17))

while True:
    if (serial.any == True):
        strCommand = serial.readline()
        print(strCommand)

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    0 dougw over 2 years ago

    Are you sure the HC05 is 9600 baud? I've had some that defaulted to other baud rates.

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    0 gregaryb over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

    Absolutely positive. I set the baud rate myself via AT commands.
    serial = UART(0, baudrate = 9600, tx = Pin(16), rx = Pin(17), timeout = 10000)
    It needed a timeout. Otherwise readline() returns imediately before you can send any data.

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    0 gregaryb over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

    Absolutely positive. I set the baud rate myself via AT commands.
    serial = UART(0, baudrate = 9600, tx = Pin(16), rx = Pin(17), timeout = 10000)
    It needed a timeout. Otherwise readline() returns imediately before you can send any data.

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