New user. Using uart to control btt octopus pro 1.0.1 via uart

Which system do you use? Android, Ubuntu, OOWOW or others?

Ubuntu

Which version of system do you use? Please provide the version of the system here:

Stock Dload image but upgraded to latest unfortunately i lost the screen with updates.

Please describe your issue below:

Unable to conect vim3 to octopus pro 1.0.1 via uart?

No console logs as of yet…

Does anyone have any ideas how i get usart rx tx working to control my 3d printer control board via uart, using ubuntu i need bith the usb pirts available and hopefully the usbc port also for peripherals.webcam,storage,etc also so i can power viat the break out header if possible to limit the power inputs to my 3d printer not practical to have both a power lead and usb lead dangling from control box for a xlean build

Hello @Mike_Stanford

Please check this doc about the UART usage.

https://docs.khadas.com/products/sbc/vim3/applications/gpio/uart#tab__vim3-with-515-kernel

Hey there thanks for rhe response, how did i miss this, I’d thought id scoured the docs obviously missed it. Ill come back and let you know if i can get this to work, i dont want to buy a rpi when i have 3 of these vim3s available as spare and perfect for this job

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