Just an update.... It appears as though I managed to fix this. It ended up being some combination of flags that allowed it to work. For anyone else having odd serial issues, here's the code I used to start a serial port connection for nonblocking reads. struct termios tio; // Serial config memset(&t...

Just an update to this... After some hours, I found that this bizarre behavior isn't limited to the PI, it's happening on desktop Ubuntu too. it seems like bytes are getting dropped or something. But the question still stands, I suppose. Has anyone had any luck reading from an FTDI USB to serial bri...

Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running Debian Jessie upgraded using the apt-get dist-upgrade method. Nothing has been done to the pi other than installing Jessie and running rpi-update. The unit has a 2.1A power supply. I'm having a bizarre issue with both the onboard serial ports as well as FTDI chips...