[Feature] Serial control

[JonnyTech]

I have some devices that require serial control - stuff like Arduino's and other custom boards. Currently using PuTTY or other terminal emulators to send strings - even from terminal:

stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 -parity cs8 -cstopb
echo 'hello' > /dev/ttyS0

Does Open Stage Control support sending / receiving serial (or even serial-over-IP)?

If not, can this be considered a feature request please?

[jean-emmanuel]

Serial communication is considered out the app's scope and won't be implemented, but it should be possible to make it work using a custom module and node's serialport. You'd need to install node and npm on your system and run npm install serialport in the custom module's folder, then the module would look like this

const SerialPort = requireNative('serialport')

//  do things with that module

module.exports = {
  oscInFilter: (data)=>{
    // maybe do something with incoming osc messages
    return data
  },
  oscOutFilter: (data)=>{
    // maybe do something with outgoing osc messages
    return data
  },
  unload: ()=>{
    // close/destroy serialport (if editing the custom module while running)
  }
}