From 9c63d798d011040c586251546177e96cfb3187bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Hottgenroth <w.hottgenroth@krohne.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:49:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] comment and readme

---
 snippets/snippet1.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/snippets/snippet1.py b/snippets/snippet1.py
index 986cd3d..edb281c 100644
--- a/snippets/snippet1.py
+++ b/snippets/snippet1.py
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ class MeterbusSerial(object):
 
     self.port.write(msg)
 
+    # FIXME: Attention, the actual write time of the interface is not considered.
+    #        This is a measured value.
     sleep(0.030)
 
     frontendHold()
@@ -128,6 +130,7 @@ class MeterbusSerial(object):
     expectedUserDataOctets = 0
     state = MeterbusResponseStates.START1
     while (state not in [MeterbusResponseStates.DONE, MeterbusResponseStates.ERROR]):
+      print("Waiting for input ... ")
       c = self.port.read()
 
       print("State {}, Octet {}".format(state, c))

From f31af7608e0e9ca66455806f65f34525ae1c9c78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Hottgenroth <w.hottgenroth@krohne.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:50:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] forgotten readme

---
 readme.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 readme.md

diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95bf7f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+## Disable the serial console, disable bluetooth and disable the hciuart service:
+
+https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md
+https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=178071
+
+
+### Disable hciuart and other bluetooth related services:
+* `systemctl disable hciuart`
+* `systemctl disable bluealsa`
+* `systemctl disable bluetooth`
+
+### Disable serial console:
+* Check `/boot/cmdline.txt`
+* Comment line `console=serial0,115200` or `console=ttyAMA0,115200` or similar
+
+### Disable bluetooth
+* Add `dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt` to `/boot/config.txt`
+
+
+
+## Serial port configuration in Python:
+
+https://pythonhosted.org/pyserial/shortintro.html#opening-serial-ports
+
+Consider a timeout!
+