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 "id": "host-side-serial-receive-buffer-overflowed-silently-corrupti",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Host-side serial receive buffer overflowed silently, corrupting image transfers",
 "symptom": "Early image buffers received correctly. Later buffers in the run silently truncated: declared size 176 KB, actual received 85 KB. No error raised; the measurement continued using the corrupted frames, producing wrong results.",
 "hw": [
  "openmv-cam"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "OpenMV firmware 4.8.1",
  "pyserial"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Reliably receive multi-megabyte sequences of JPEG image buffers from OpenMV over USB serial at 2.0 MB/s",
 "date": "2026-08-26",
 "status": "provisional",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}