ESP32 Hardware Serial Flow control and full espressif/arduino-esp32 support

your example was of great help solving the problem of driving RTS properly, thanks a lot!

I found a small bug in the code example, the data buffer is allocated in the loop() function instead of setup() and as a result, eventually the memory leak will fill-up all available memory.

Ciao! Alessandro

Espressif and Arduino use the same UART numbering, and there are no hidden properties of hardwareSerial that are bound to it UART instance So it's possible to perform a reach-around and replace the arduino harwareSerial UART driver instance with an espressif RS485 uart instance and then use Arduinos hardwareSerial methods to communicate with the UART.

#include <Arduino.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <driver/uart.h>

#define ECHO_UART_PORT UART_NUM_1
#define ECHO_TEST_TXD   (25)
#define ECHO_TEST_RXD   (26)
#define ECHO_TEST_RTS   (27)
#define ECHO_TEST_CTS  UART_PIN_NO_CHANGE
#define BUF_SIZE        (127)
#define BAUD_RATE       (9600)


#if   ECHO_UART_PORT == UART_NUM_0
#define         SERIAL_485 Serial 
#error  Serial is already committed elsewhere in this code

#elif ECHO_UART_PORT == UART_NUM_1
#define         SERIAL_485 Serial1 

#elif ECHO_UART_PORT == UART_NUM_2
#define         SERIAL_485 Serial2 
#endif

static const char *TAG = "RS485_ECHO_APP";
 
void setup() {
    Serial.begin(115200); //uses UART_NUM_0
    //configure UART_NUM_2 for RS485
    const uart_port_t uart_num = ECHO_UART_PORT;
    uart_config_t uart_config = {
        .baud_rate = BAUD_RATE,
        .data_bits = UART_DATA_8_BITS,
        .parity = UART_PARITY_DISABLE,
        .stop_bits = UART_STOP_BITS_1,
        .flow_ctrl = UART_HW_FLOWCTRL_DISABLE,
        .rx_flow_ctrl_thresh = 122,
    };
 
 
    Serial.println("Start RS485 application test and configure UART.");
 
    // start arduino serial port
    SERIAL_485.begin(BAUD_RATE);
    SERIAL_485.setTimeout(1+(10000/BAUD_RATE) ); // 10000 is 10 symbols per byte * 1000 ms per second
     
    // drop rhe Arduino installed UART driver!
    // we will replace this with a 485 capable driver.
    uart_driver_delete(uart_num);

    // Configure UART parameters
    uart_param_config(uart_num, &uart_config);

    Serial.println("UART set pins, mode and install driver.");
    // Set UART1 pins(TX: IO23, RX: I022, RTS: IO18, CTS: IO19)
    uart_set_pin(uart_num, ECHO_TEST_TXD, ECHO_TEST_RXD, ECHO_TEST_RTS, ECHO_TEST_CTS);
 
    // Install UART driver (we don't need an event queue here)
    // In this example we don't even use a buffer for sending data.
    uart_driver_install(uart_num, BUF_SIZE * 2, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
 
    // Set RS485 half duplex mode
    uart_set_mode(uart_num, UART_MODE_RS485_HALF_DUPLEX);
 
    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "UART start recieve loop.\r\n");
    SERIAL_485.printf("Start RS485 UART test.\r\n");
}