Bluetooth serial port drops final command (Mac OS)

[bl-nero]

Consider this simple program:

using System;
using System.Threading;
using MonoBrick.EV3;

namespace MonoBrickTest {
  class MainClass {
    public static void Main(string[] args) {
      string portName = args.Length > 0 ? args[0] : "usb";
      var ev3 = new Brick<Sensor, Sensor, Sensor, IRSensor>(portName);
      ev3.Connection.Open();
      ev3.MotorB.On(1);
      Thread.Sleep(200);  // (1)
      ev3.MotorB.Off();
      // Thread.Sleep(2000);  // (2)
      ev3.Connection.Close();  // optional
    }
  }
}

When I use USB, it’s fine. However, if I decide to connect through Bluetooth to my EV3, it sometimes (very frequently) drops the Off() command and keeps the motor turned on. If I get rid of statement (1), the “off” command is always skipped. However, it’s enough to uncomment (2) to stop this behavior.

I have a theory that the serial port doesn’t flush itself properly before closing, so I decided to dig further – I dumped both commands into binary files from inside the Bluetooth.Send() method, and sent them manually to the serial port device using the “cat” command. I confirmed that I can send them one by one to make the motor start and stop, and that sending them both at once didn’t leave the motor turned on – so the commands are 100% correct, and it’s most probably the connection handling that gets messed up.

Did anyone else come across this problem? I can see a mysterious Thread.Sleep() in the Bluetooth class in the Open() method; could this be for similar reasons?

For the reference, here’s what mono –version says:

Mono JIT compiler version 3.10.0 ((detached/e204655 Mon Oct 13 08:50:28 EDT 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           normal
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notification:  kqueue
	Architecture:  x86
	Disabled:      none
	Misc:          softdebug
	LLVM:          yes(3.4svn-mono-(detached/e656cac)
	GC:            sgen

I’m using Mac OS 10.9.5.

And here’s the brick info:

Brick HW: V0.60
Brick FW: V1.06H

• This topic was modified 10 years ago by bl-nero.
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