I am doing some testing with the new serial port module. It is a little function that just reads incoming data. When it is reading it translates what I am sending (a, b, hello, etc.) into the ascii characters when I use readUntil() eg. “b” would read as 98. Using the readBytes() function will read “Yg==”.
essentially:
textByte = readBytes(port2, 1)
textUntil = readUntil(port2, “,” 0)
system.tag.writeToTag(“Byte”, textByte) # YQ==
system.tag.writeToTag(“Text”, textUntil) # 97
Python uses chr(“numbers”) to translate from ascii to text and there is another utility bas64.base64(“numbers”) to translate from base64. Neither of these seem to work for me, but I am new to Python and could very well be missing a step.
any suggestions?
Thanks!