Serial Appdaemon

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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Good evening,

Trying to create a link between an Arduino and pi using appdaemon. I’ve cut the bulk of the code out to simplify (sorry if some of the tabbing is out due to copy-paste)
Python:

import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
import datetime
import time
import serial
import json

class ArduinoPiComms(hass.Hass):

  def initialize(self):
    start_time = self.datetime() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)
    self.handle = self.run_every(self.run_every_Serial,start_time,1)

   def run_every_Serial(self, kwargs):
     self.ser = serial.Serial(
          port = '/dev/ttyACM0',
          baudrate = 38400,
          timeout=2.5,
          parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
          bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,
          stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE
          )
    data = {"mes":1000, etc } #message is ~60 bytes of data
    data = json.dumps(data).encode('ascii')
    self.log("1. outgoing msg: %s\n", data)
    
    if ser.isOpen():
        #send data
        ser.write(data)
        ser.flush()
        try:
            #read
            doc = ser.readline()
            self.log(2)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log("Error : try to parse an incomplete message")
            pass

      ser.close()
      doc = json.loads(doc)
      self.log("2. Recieved: %s\n",doc)

now the code its self works, send and receives data but!!! it does this ass about. i.e. it opens up and reads the message first then sends the data (confirmed in logs)

i.e it will show:

10:12:45.34: outgoing : {"mes":1000, etc }
10:12:45.30: Recieved: {incoming...}

now the weird thing is if I reduce the size of the outgoing message it works, okay, but if I leave it long with ~data points it works the wrong way.

Any idea as to why/how I can code around this?

2

Found the issue, forgot to add the \n from the arduino side. working a lot better, although need to implement a better system for picking up if a state has been changed during the receive time, can be buggy if you press it at the wrong time.