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I am working with a project where I need to read data from my device(i.e ADAM 4520)using serial to USB converter.
1st, I tested with my PC using hyper terminal and with Raspberry Pi 3 using GtkTerm, it is perfectly working.
As both hyper terminal and gtkterm using Ascii and my device ADAM-4520 also understand Ascii, But how to communicate through python code I am not finding away as I am new to python and raspberry pi, please guide me.

Here is my code:

import serial
import time
s=serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyS0',
                baudrate=9600,
                parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
                stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
                bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,timeout=1)
st="#04"
st=''.join(str(ord(c)) for c in st)
x=st.encode('ascii')
while True:
   s.write(x)
   print(x)
   time.sleep(0.2)
   text=s.readline()
   temp=text.decode('ascii')
   #text=text.decode('utf-8')
      #text=text[5:-1]
   print(temp)

Here is my output:

354852
b''
354852
b''
354852

I am receiving nothing. whereas using gtkterm I am getting a response.

 #04
>+261.27+310.83+049.09+206.77+126.81+049.79

#042
>+049.11
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    This is a general programming question and not specific to the Pi. UARTs usually send byte values, which can be interpreted by sender/receiver as characters or numeric values. It is unclear what you are asking or why you are doing the convoluted operations rather than just sending characters (which - at least in Python3), are normally treated as UTF-8, of which ASCII is a simple subset.
    – Milliways
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 6:08
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    "#04" is a 3 character string. This is still NOT a Pi question.
    – Milliways
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 6:17
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    @Milliways,But this is a command to read ADAM-4520 device value and i am using raspberry Pi to communicate with ADAM-4520 and which successfully working using gtkterm which is an utility for Raspbian
    – ram
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 6:24
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    @tlfong01,after parallelly connecting hyper terminal and pi with device ,i observe if i am writing "#04 "command by using ser.write(str.encode("#04") then it is also showing in hyper terminal and if in that time i pressed enter through my hyper terminal ,then also my device response and result is coming on both terminal.So my question is (is it possible to add enter command with #04?)
    – ram
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 9:16
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    @tlfong01,Thanks for your valuable time ..i got the solution .it works with command` st="\x23\x30\x34\x0D" then st=st.encode() then s.write(st)` then my device respond.Please do me a favor and please upvote the question..i new to python but here all are busy with down voting,which make me feel so bad
    – ram
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 9:41

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After changing the code it worked properly. So I updated here my code as it will definitely help a newbie. My device is ADAM-4520(485-232 converter), ADAM-4015(6-channel RTD module). I am interfacing these two devices with my Raspberry Pi 3 with serial (Rx/Tx)pin.

import serial
import time
import struct
s=serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyS0',
                baudrate=9600,
                parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
                stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
                bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,
                timeout=1)
st="\x23\x30\x34\x0D"
x=st.encode()
while True:
   s.write(x)
   print("write: ",x)
   time.sleep(1)
   text=s.readline()
   temp=text.decode('utf-8')
   print("response: ",temp)
   time.sleep(2)

And here is my output.

write: b'#04\r'
Response: >+261.20+310.60+049.08+206.75+126.77+049.79

So it needs an enter command along with command "#04"(which is given in document of the device, but enter command needed it isn't given on documentation.

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