[SOLVED]Send Serial ASCII string to Web Server

[jimpower]

@livius

Thanks for your reply,

I used putty and got this output from

set /p x="hello world" <nul >\.\COM9

b'fr3rfr\x193r\x19rfr3r\x19r3rfrfr3rfr3rgr3rfrgrfr3r3rfrg\x00\xa9::\n*\x00yFrgrgrggr3rfrfrgrfrfrf3r3rfr\x19r\trMr\x12r\x12rHrKr\trcr\x0cr\x06r\x06r\x08rgr3rgr3rfr\x19r'

Does this look accurate?

[livius]

@jimpower
no this looks like garbage
what is your putty com settings?

UPDATE

can you clarify this

I used putty and got this output from
set /p x="hello world" <nul >.\COM9

above command can be run from windows CMD after setting com settings by mode command
you can not run it from putty it send this as text

[jimpower]

@livius

I sent plain text hello with same garbage response

[livius]

@jimpower
Then only some wiring problem must be.
You have connected P4 which is default RX for UART1 with TX of your serial converter
For test connect also RX from converter to TX (P3). And look if all is ok.
And if possible test Lopy without expansion board.

[jimpower]

@livius Yes my tx is on pin4 and rx on p3. I will try without expansion board thanks.

[jcaron]

Isn’t there an issue with levels? I.e. +/- 5V for regular serial port compared to 0/3V for the LoPy or something similar?

[livius]

@jcaron
I ommit that he say about RS232!

@jimpower
RS232 is not an UART. And 5V levels can kill your lopy board it is 3V3 device.
If you need to connect it to your PC use TTL converter e.g. USB->UART.
You then can have virtual COM on your PC.

[jimpower]

@jcaron damn that makes sense, so I would need some kind of step down can this be done by an ardiuno I have one lying around.

[jimpower]

@livius thanks I have a bunch of these lying around will give that a try thanks everyone

[jimpower]

@livius @jcaron <SOLVED>

I managed to get this to work thanks to your help, used a sparkfun MAX3232 to step down the RS232 to UART and ASCII strings appear as expected and was able to upload them to a web server.