Raspberry Pi UART-Setup
Setup your Raspberry Pi to communicate with the SurfaceRT.
Configure your Raspberry Pi
To enable the UART on your Raspberry Pi to be used as host you need to configure it:
sudo raspi-config
Go to 5 - interfacing options
Go to P6 - serial
Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial?
Answer: 'No'
Would you like the serial port hardware to be enabled?
Answer: 'Yes'
Reboot your Raspberry Pi.
Open a serial console
To establish a UART-Connection to the Surface RT use
RPI2: minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyAMA0
RPI_Zero minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyS0
Further information: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md
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