MY_SERIALDEVICE overrides MY_DEBUG_HWSERIAL

[mfalkvidd]

@nelsonov you're welcome. Always great when new people join the forum.

The suggestion to modify hwDebugPrint, as discussed in the thread you linked, seems like the best way forward to me.

You could manually replace all occurrences of MY_SERIALDEVICE in the implementation for your board (https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/blob/development/hal/architecture/ESP8266/MyHwESP8266.cpp#L149 if you're using esp8266) with the serial device you want to use.

It is a bit of a hack, but if it works and you find it useful we should be able to modify a future release of the MySensors library to support redirecting debug output without having to hack the library.

[scalz]

it would be better to change it directly in MyHwESP8266.h , for a quick hack (just one line)

[mfalkvidd]

@scalz won't that cause the gateway serial output to the controller to also change device?

The same define is used here: https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/blob/development/core/MyGatewayTransportSerial.cpp#L32

[scalz]

@mfalkvidd
not sure to understand "change device" :blush:
I thought he wants to use another serial. Then you adviced to change all lines in the esp8266 hw layer cpp. That's why I said, it's quicker to change this directly in the .h as it's here it's defined..

[mfalkvidd]

@scalz OP wants debug prints to go to one serial device, and serial gateway prints to go to a different serial device.

[scalz]

@mfalkvidd
Oki, I just got it lol. was not obvious to me first time (I've never needed this)
I agree with you, forget what I said above ;) (because that would be applied globally)

[nelsonov]

@mfalkvidd I'm using an AVR board for my serial gateway. I modified hwDebugPrint in MyHwAVR.cpp with an extra #ifndef to look for MY_DEBUGDEVICE or copy MY_SERIALDEVICE to it. Then all occurrences of MY_SERIALDEVICE were changed to MY_DEBUGDEVICE.

I added this to my sketch:

#define MY_DEBUGDEVICE Serial  // Redirect debug to Serial

The result was what I wanted. Controller <-> Gateway configuration went over Serial1 (/dev/ttyS0 on my RPi) and debugging output went to Serial (/dev/ttyACM0 on my RPi). This allows me to easily debug without having to take any special steps with my controller.

void hwDebugPrint(const char *fmt, ... )
{
#ifndef MY_DEBUGDEVICE
#define MY_DEBUGDEVICE MY_SERIALDEVICE
#endif
#ifndef MY_DISABLED_SERIAL
	char fmtBuffer[MY_SERIAL_OUTPUT_SIZE];
#ifdef MY_GATEWAY_SERIAL
	// prepend debug message to be handled correctly by controller (C_INTERNAL, I_LOG_MESSAGE)
	snprintf_P(fmtBuffer, sizeof(fmtBuffer), PSTR("0;255;%" PRIu8 ";0;%" PRIu8 ";%" PRIu32 " "),
	           C_INTERNAL, I_LOG_MESSAGE, hwMillis());
	MY_DEBUGDEVICE.print(fmtBuffer);
#else
	// prepend timestamp
	MY_DEBUGDEVICE.print(hwMillis());
	MY_DEBUGDEVICE.print(F(" "));
#endif
	va_list args;
	va_start (args, fmt );
	vsnprintf_P(fmtBuffer, sizeof(fmtBuffer), fmt, args);
#ifdef MY_GATEWAY_SERIAL
	// Truncate message if this is gateway node
	fmtBuffer[sizeof(fmtBuffer) - 2] = '\n';
	fmtBuffer[sizeof(fmtBuffer) - 1] = '\0';
#endif
	va_end (args);
	MY_DEBUGDEVICE.print(fmtBuffer);
	MY_DEBUGDEVICE.flush();
#else
	(void)fmt;
#endif
}

[mfalkvidd]

@nelsonov very nice!
Would you be comfortable creating a pull request with these changes? Preferably for all platforms, but we can work together on that.

[nelsonov]

@mfalkvidd I'm quite willing to open a pull request. This will be my first time. Do you want me to create an issue as well? Also what would this be called? Perhaps something like "Alternate Port Debugging"? It's hard to think of something that's 'googlable'.

[mfalkvidd]

@nelsonov Great! There is no need to create an issue. If there is anything to discuss, we can discuss in the pull request thread.

Maybe call it something like "Add MY_DEBUGDEVICE to redirect debug output"