I will also note that I know UART5 works as tio /dev/ttyO5 -b 9600 connects and displays data just fine.
Short version is I want to use UART5 on the BeagleBone Blue in python, preferably with Adafruit_BBIO and there seems to be either something missing or some setup that I need to add/do.
Running sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh gets me
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git:/opt/scripts/:[1aa73453b2c980b75e31e83dab7dd8b6696f10c7]
eeprom:[A335BNLTBLA21717EL001851]
model:[TI_AM335x_BeagleBone_Blue]
dogtag:[BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2018-10-07]
bootloader:[microSD-(push-button)]:[/dev/mmcblk0]:[U-Boot 2018.09-00002-g0b54a51eee]:[location: dd MBR]
kernel:[4.14.71-ti-r80]
nodejs:[v6.15.0]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_overlays=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[disable_uboot_overlay_video=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-14-TI-00A0.dtbo]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_cape_universal=1]
pkg check: to individually upgrade run: [sudo apt install --only-upgrade <pkg>]
pkg:[bb-cape-overlays]:[4.4.20181120.0-0rcnee0~stretch+20181120]
pkg:[bb-wl18xx-firmware]:[1.20180517-0rcnee0~stretch+20180517]
pkg:[kmod]:[23-2rcnee1~stretch+20171005]
pkg:[librobotcontrol]:[1.0.4-git20181123.0-0rcnee0~stretch+20181124]
pkg:[firmware-ti-connectivity]:[20180825+dfsg-1rcnee1~stretch+20181217]
groups:[debian : debian adm kmem dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev users systemd-journal i2c bluetooth netdev cloud9ide gpio pwm eqep admin spi tisdk weston-launch xenomai]
cmdline:[console=ttyO0,115200n8 bone_capemgr.uboot_capemgr_enabled=1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait coherent_pool=1M net.ifnames=0 quiet]
dmesg | grep pinctrl-single
[ 1.085217] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: 142 pins at pa f9e10800 size 568
dmesg | grep gpio-of-helper
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#!/usr/bin/env python
#GPS test
import Adafruit_BBIO.UART as UART5
import serial
UART5.setup("UART5")
with serial.Serial(port = "/dev/ttyO5", baudrate=9600, interCharTimeout = .05, timeout = 1) as ser:
print("beginning")
count = 0
while(count < 20):
response = ser.read_until("$GPGGA")
print(response)
response = ser.read(65)
print(response)
count = count + 1
Jeff Watts