Composite PPM to UART

[oxxyfx]

Thank you. Now, the interesting part. If I put the 2 programs together first blinking the LED's and then run the RS232 test the led's will never blink but the characters I type will be echoed back on the serial port.
So why is the LED not blinking.

[PCM programmer]

Because the getc() function waits in a loop until a character has been
received by the UART. Then it gets the character, and the program
flow moves on to the next line.

You can avoid the waiting loop if you call the kbhit() function before you
call getc(). If kbhit() returns 'True', then call getc(). If not, then don't
call it.

[oxxyfx]

Yes, I knew that. However the blinking led is before the code gets to read the getc(). The getc() is in the while loop and the blinking code is before that. I think it should be executed before the code enters into the UART section, or doesn't it?

[PCM programmer]

Post the program that fails.