I am building a robot that involves a Raspberry Pi and Makeblock Orion board connected over a USB cable and communicating via serial. I have a website on the Pi from which I would like to control the robot by using a browser on another device. The problem I have is every time I open a serial connection between the Pi and the Orion it triggers a reset. This prevents me from sending commands effectively, because to send a command the webpage must refresh, which runs the code to connect over serial, triggering a reset, and causing the actual command to be lost while the reset occurs.
According to this page http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/DisablingAutoResetOnSerialConnection it is possible to disable this auto refresh functionality on a standard Arduino board. My question is:
How can I disable the auto refresh on serial connection with the Makeblock Orion board?
If I do that, will that interfere with uploading a new sketch?