Vb.Net DataReceived event doesn´t fire up on leonardo

[ntiagobr]

Hello everyone, recently bought an Arduino Leonardo, however I am not able to receive data on VB.net side, I can send data to Arduino but can´t receive, DataReceived event doesn´t fire on VB.NET, can someone help me, already googled and I can´t see no reason why event DataReceived isn´t working.

Here´s my Vb code :

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Public Class Form1

   Public WithEvents SerialP As System.IO.Ports.SerialPort


   Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

       Try
           'GetSerialPortNames()

           SerialP = New System.IO.Ports.SerialPort
           SerialP.BaudRate = 9600
           SerialP.PortName = "COM15"
           SerialP.DataBits = 8
           SerialP.ReadTimeout = 5000
           SerialP.WriteTimeout = 5000
           SerialP.Parity = IO.Ports.Parity.None
           SerialP.StopBits = IO.Ports.StopBits.One
           SerialP.Handshake = IO.Ports.Handshake.None
           'SerialP.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.Default 'very important!
           SerialP.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8

           SerialP.Open()
         
       Catch ex As Exception
           SerialP.Close()
       End Try


   End Sub

   Public Sub SerialPort_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles SerialP.DataReceived
       MessageBox.Show("")
   End Sub

   Sub GetSerialPortNames()
       ' Show all available COM ports.
       For Each sp As String In My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames
           'cmboComm.Items.Add(sp)
       Next
   End Sub

   Private Sub SendToSerialP()
       If SerialP.IsOpen Then
           SerialP.Write("H")
       Else

           'SerialP.Write(txtSend.Text)
       End If
   End Sub

   Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
       SendToSerialP()
   End Sub

   Private Sub Form1_Disposed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Disposed
       SerialP.Close()

   End Sub
 
End Class


And here is my Sketch :

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const int ledPin = 13; // the pin that the LED is attached to
int incomingByte;      // a variable to read incoming serial data into
int counter;

void setup() {
 // initialize serial communication:
 Serial.begin(9600);
 while (!Serial) {
   ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for Leonardo only
 }
 
 establishContact();
 
 // initialize the LED pin as an output:
 pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
 counter = 0;
}

void loop() {

}


void establishContact() {
 while (Serial.available() <= 0) {
   Serial.print('A');   // send a capital A
   delay(300);
 }
}

[ntiagobr]

Problem solved  , after some digging, i figured out the issue, properties SerialP.DtrEnable and SerialP.RtsEnable must both be set to True.

Thank you all anyway.

I will leave the this post, who knows, it can be useful to someone else.

[tomfleet]

Hi!

Just wanted to say thanks for posting up the solution you found, I'd been trying everything I could think of to trick the Leonardo into thinking that the connection was active, but had completely overlooked the handshaking! 

Works a treat, thanks again!

Tom

[ntiagobr]

Great!

I'm glad it helped, I regret there is so little help about this issue.

[rogerco]

HURRAH

Bumping this topic as it just saved my skin. Wasted a whole day trying to figure out why a sketch and app that worked with the Uno didn't work with Leonardo - eventually google threw up this after many dead ends.

Thank you so much. How annoying that it is different.

RogerCO