Qik 2s12v10 error trying to communicate

Support Motor controllers/drivers and motors
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Hello,
I have set up my “Qik 2s12v10” controller according to the user manual and as shown in the photo here:
http://i.imgur.com/UainRMD.png
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a desktop computer and have the motor controller hooked up to the /dev/ttyS0 serial port on this machine. I am trying to send individual commands to the motor controller (such as the simple “0x8D” command). The problem is as follows:
I am able to successfully open a terminal (“Terminal Ready”) in picocom, however, when I start typing (literally any key I press), the error light comes on and no text is printed in the terminal.
Is my setup bad? Or perhaps is there some configuration step that I am missing?

Thank you for your help.

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Hi.

Most terminal programs send ASCII encoded strings, so you are probably sending ASCII strings to the qik rather than serial command bytes. ASCII is not supported by the qik; it only accepts raw, binary bytes. You might try using this bash script for sending serial commands to our Maestro as a starting point for sending serial bytes to the qik.

-Claire