Problem with Serial communication about presencelight HOT 8 OPEN

hey @pauliusbau, sadly I did not add this feature and don't have the HW to test. Possibly @JMilthaler can help as he did the work on this.
FWIW did this ever work for you? The code hasn't been touched in 1 years :O

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Hey. No, it haven't. It's the first time I am trying it out.

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Hmmm yea, unless something changed in System.IO.Ports I am not sure what the issue, unless you have the ability to clone the repo and test locally?

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It's been quite a long time since I looked at this code, so it may take a bit to reacquaint myself with the details, but I can also look. I don't remember if the settings.json file has any sensitive information in it. If not, having a copy of that may help me see what's going on.

I do also have a very simple example of an Arduino based serial communication in my repo - https://github.com/JMilthaler/PresenceLightHardware/tree/master/PresenceLight.Hardware.Serial

** edit **
Ignore PresenceLight.Hardware.BLE in that repo - the hardware was never reliable and often stopped working randomly

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The only thing you need to add is the client ID in appsettings.json.

Send me an email [email protected] and I will send it to you

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I am also seeing something similar. My serial connections work fine for a day or two, but then I start getting these errors:
System.IO.IOException: The semaphore timeout period has expired. : 'COM3' and serial commands fail to send.

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sadly I do not have a device to test this feature. More than happy to review a PR if you have a fix

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I am also seeing something similar. My serial connections work fine for a day or two, but then I start getting these errors: System.IO.IOException: The semaphore timeout period has expired. : 'COM3' and serial commands fail to send.

I think this happens when the serial device goes to sleep or loses power. I can only speak to the Seeduino XIAO because that's what I used, but I had to disable all power saving functions on the device or I received similar issues.

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