Orange Pi Zero LibNFC

I have a Adafruit PN532 connected over UART to the orange Pi Zero on UART1(p8/10) i added the uart overlays to armbianEnv.txt and edited the libnfc.conf to include device.connstring = "pn532_uart:/dev/ttyS1" #device.connstring = "pn532_uart:/dev/ttyS1:9600". I commented included a fixed lower baudrate to test if it might have been the problem. To thest the theory i connected a arduino due to the same serial port to print somting to see if there was any communication but nothing went through the python code i used was simple :

 import serial

ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS1')

print(ser.name)

ser.write(b'hello')

ser.close()

the Arduino scethch just had a 

Serial1.begin(115200)

Serial.begin(9600)

// Serial1.begin(9600)

and in the loop

while(Serial1.available > 0)

{

     Serial.print(Serial1.read();

}

I am coming from a Arduino background and the pi is very new to me so any advice will be greatly apprichiated

Edited March 8, 20188 yr by Karel_Kruger