Serial connection on Edge-V

Yes.

  • BOARD GND ↔ USB-TTL adapter GND
  • BOARD TXD ↔ USB-TTL adapter RX
  • BOARD RXD ↔ USB-TTL adapter TX

VCC is optional, you can leave it o disconnected or connected it to 3.3V or 5.0V depends on your USB-TTL adapter.

Please make sure you have setup minicom correctly.

  • Choose the correct serial devices, if you only have one USB-TTL adapter, it shuould be /dev/ttyUSB0
  • Setup correct baudrate - 1500000
  • Setup no Hardware Flow Control

It shuld be like this:

Welcome to minicom 2.8                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                      
OPTI+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+                                                                         
Port| A -    Serial Device      : /dev/ttyUSB0                              |                                                                         
    | B - Lockfile Location     : /var/lock                                 |                                                                         
Pres| C -   Callin Program      :                                           |                                                                         
    | D -  Callout Program      :                                           |                                                                         
    | E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 1500000 8N1                               |                                                                         
    | F - Hardware Flow Control : No                                        |                                                                         
    | G - Software Flow Control : No                                        |                                                                         
    | H -     RS485 Enable      : No                                        |                                                                         
    | I -   RS485 Rts On Send   : No                                        |                                                                         
    | J -  RS485 Rts After Send : No                                        |                                                                         
    | K -  RS485 Rx During Tx   : No                                        |                                                                         
    | L -  RS485 Terminate Bus  : No                                        |                                                                         
    | M - RS485 Delay Rts Before: 0                                         |                                                                         
    | N - RS485 Delay Rts After : 0                                         |                                                                         
    |                                                                       |                                                                         
    |    Change which setting?                                              |                                                                         
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