Gibberish from Serial Connection

[benvaughan]

Hi all, I've connected a Serial-TTL converter to my Macbook Pro on one side, and an OrangePi Zero on the other, when I power up the Zero, I'm getting the following, what looks like an output with missing characters:

 

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I'm connecting with "sudo screen /dev/cu.usbserial 115200" and the adapter's driver in the network connections is set to 115200.

The adapter is an Adafruit USB to TTL Serial Cable with a Prolific chipset.

Any ideas?

Edited June 23, 2018 by benvaughan
More info

[benvaughan]

Ah - got it working by changing USB port. No idea why this happened - would be interested to hear from others.