C code for non-standard baud rate on Debian/Raspberry Pi

Question

I'm working with a hardware device which only operates with the non-standard baud rate of 625000.

I need to connect to and read and write data from this device via a USB port. Hence I've been trying to develop a little C program which will allow me to do this. However, this code needs to work in a Linux environment (Debian/Raspian) and unfortunately my Linux skills are only rudimentary.

Therefore, I was hoping some one could explain to me in the simplest terms (code examples would be great!) how I set up a non-standard baud rate of 625000 on Linux, connect to my hardware device (ttyUSB0), and write a bit stream to the device (0x02 0x01) and read from it the 7 bytes it returns.

I've had a look at the following Stack Overflow questions:

And others...

However, the holes in my Linux knowledge are just too great for me to make the necessary connections. How can I do it?

Try stackoverflow.com/q/17675127/10396 for the general idea. Should be able to combine with the other answers for baud settting. — AShelly
Check this out. It will guide you while setting up your wished environment. I wanna mention, though, that there're some libraries to simplify your work. — edmz
Hi black, thanks for the info, which libraries would those be? — user1182556

user1182556 user1182556 · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-07T10:55:20

So after a bit more searching I stumbled upon the following code at:

https://jim.sh/ftx/files/linux-custom-baudrate.c

Below, is a copy of the above code which I've dumbed down quite a bit for my purposes however, it should be quite simple to implement now.

#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<errno.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<fcntl.h>
#include<termio.h>
#include <linux/serial.h>

static int rate_to_constant(int baudrate) {
#define B(x) case x: return B##x
        switch(baudrate) {
        B(50);     B(75);     B(110);    B(134);    B(150);
        B(200);    B(300);    B(600);    B(1200);   B(1800);
        B(2400);   B(4800);   B(9600);   B(19200);  B(38400);
        B(57600);  B(115200); B(230400); B(460800); B(500000);
        B(576000); B(921600); B(1000000);B(1152000);B(1500000);
    default: return 0;
    }
#undef B
}

int main() {

    struct termios options;
    struct serial_struct serinfo;
    int fd;
    int speed = 0;
    int rate = 625000;

    /* Open and configure serial port */
    if ((fd = open("/dev/ttyUSB0",O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY)) == -1)
    {
        return -1;
    }

    // if you've entered a standard baud the function below will return it
    speed = rate_to_constant(rate);

    if (speed == 0) {
        /* Custom divisor */
        serinfo.reserved_char[0] = 0;
        if (ioctl(fd, TIOCGSERIAL, &serinfo) < 0)
            return -1;
        serinfo.flags &= ~ASYNC_SPD_MASK;
        serinfo.flags |= ASYNC_SPD_CUST;
        serinfo.custom_divisor = (serinfo.baud_base + (rate / 2)) / rate;
        if (serinfo.custom_divisor < 1)
            serinfo.custom_divisor = 1;
        if (ioctl(fd, TIOCSSERIAL, &serinfo) < 0)
            return -1;
        if (ioctl(fd, TIOCGSERIAL, &serinfo) < 0)
            return -1;
        if (serinfo.custom_divisor * rate != serinfo.baud_base) {
            warnx("actual baudrate is %d / %d = %f",
                  serinfo.baud_base, serinfo.custom_divisor,
                  (float)serinfo.baud_base / serinfo.custom_divisor);
        }
    }

    fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, 0);
    tcgetattr(fd, &options);
    cfsetispeed(&options, speed ?: B38400);
    cfsetospeed(&options, speed ?: B38400);
    cfmakeraw(&options);
    options.c_cflag |= (CLOCAL | CREAD);
    options.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;
    if (tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &options) != 0)
    {
        //return -1;
    }


    //return fd;

    char ping_cmd[] = {2,1};
    char ping_rec[7];

    write(fd,&ping_cmd,sizeof(ping_cmd));
    read(fd,&ping_rec,sizeof(ping_rec));

    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < sizeof(ping_rec); i++)
    {
        printf("%d ",ping_rec[i]);
    }


    close(fd);
    return 0;
}

As the more astute coders out there will notice, since I pulled this code into my main, the presence of all those "return -1" is almost certainly bad programming practice, however, I'm not sure how I should clean it up and hence I'd love hear your suggestions - I will make edits as suggested.

In the meantime though, should you face a similar problem to me, the above should do nicely.

C code for non-standard baud rate on Debian/Raspberry Pi

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