[Pi 4] Send image through serial

[Rafael.Ferreira]

Hello,

I have a question, I'll have a RPi 4 installed with cameras that take pictures every hour and then sends it via Serial Radio to another station (Local and distance offer me no other viable choice),, how can send *jpg over a serial port on the RPi and receive on the other end on a Windows PC??

Please help, this matter is driving me insane.

[topguy]

What are the stats for your radiolink ?
- Is it two-way communication ? ( if not this is going to be rather difficult )
- What is the bandwidth/speed ? ( bits per second )

Back in the days when BBS was a thing we use special filetransfer protocols called Xmodem/Ymodem and Zmodem.

On the linux end you have commands : https://linux.die.net/man/1/sz
And on windows you have terminal programs that can support the same protocols. ( ExtraPutty , SyncTERM )

There is also the option to use the PPPD protocol between the two machines, which is basically internet dial-up which we used before broadband.
This would set up a network connection between the Pi and the PC and then you could use standard internet protocols for transferring the files.
Part solution here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Connec ... sing-UART/

[Rafael.Ferreira]

Thanks for your reply, radio is listening to signal and sending straight to a webserver.

I did manage to accomplish the task tho, I converted the images to hex, sent the hexes though serial port, collected the hexes and remounted the image on clinet-side.

I am having now a really smaller problem on the task. Sometimes the radio scrambles my receiving end, I get the messages out of order and I'm failing to use a number as an indicator inside the coding.

Code: Select all

import serial
import time


s = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB0")

i = 1

f = open('/home/pi/camlog/cam1.txt', 'rb')

while True:
    piece = f.read(512)  
    if not piece:
        break
    s.write('CAM1P')
    s.write(i)
    s.write('_')
    s.write(piece)
    #time.sleep(30)
    s.write('\r\n')
    i += 1

For some reason, i as an integer, isn't sent by serial, I have no idea why or how to go around this.

[topguy]

Explain to us how you want the line to look.

The integer 123 is not converted to the string "123" by the s.write() you have to do that first.