Example request RS485 rx

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the repository's existing serial or UART examples and review how they handle receiving data; done would be a working Pico example that reads an RS485 stream and exposes the requested byte and inter-record-gap information.

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Description

enhancement

I have many skills but I am completely ignorant about hardware interfaces.
I need to read a RS485 data stream. It's sort of a firehose data stream DATA, Pause, DATA... and I currently use a Pi and a RS485 USB dongle for the read. I sample periodically as I can't just sit on the feed and read every byte. I believe, if I could read the stream, I could move all my specialized management of the data to a Pico. I just need to be able to get those bytes and inter record gaps. ;)

This is not an urgent request, just a nice to have feature.

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