Arduino(s) not resetting on Serial connection lost / re-established - why?

Question

it seems that I accidentally found a way to make my two Arduino nano clones run without resetting on serial connection close/reconnect. On one hand, this behavior is much closer to the desired behavior and on the other hand it feels hackish, because I don't know the cause yet.

The devices are still able to be flashed with new firmware

I assume that it has to do with the usage of socat as proxy for the devices in question. The described behavior was first observed after playing with socat. The command that finally worked for me:

/usr/bin/socat -s -d /dev/ttyACM3,b115200,cs8,parenb=0,cstopb=0,clocal=0,raw,echo=0,setlk,flock-ex-nb,nonblock=1 PTY,link=~/.pyduin/ttyACM3.tty,b115200,cs8,parenb=0,cstopb=0,clocal=0,raw,echo=0,setlk,flock-ex-nb,nonblock=1

An Arduino Uno with the exact same firmware/treatment does not show the same bahavior.

Any ideas what had gone wrong? And how to restore the default FTDI behavior?

Answer 1

What you have done is to disable the "HUPCL" signal that is sent when the port is opened/closed.

You can turn the signal back on with:

$ stty -F /dev/ttyACM3 hupcl

And you can turn it off again with:

$ stty -F /dev/ttyACM3 -hupcl

HUPCL means "HangUP on CLose".

• moestly: Yes, that was the cause. Thanks. Btw, is it safe to use it as a proxish feature? I mean the arduino does not reset on reconnect and there are tons of guys in the internet asking for that feature.