Serial Monitor

[DArtagan]

I've been enjoying platformio immensely, thank you for doing so much work in such recent time. I'm curious whether you consider including a serial monitor as a future goal or outside the scope of this project? If you consider it a goal, I could perhaps create something using screen.

[ivankravets]

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

1. In which way "serial monitor" should work? It should use "native" terminal from OS or PlatformIO should have it like a package?
2. Which are types of terminals? I know:

Unix:

• screen
• Minicom
• Picocom
• UUCP

Windows:

• HyperTerminal

I think need to split current $ platformio serialports command to separated:

$ platformio serialports list  # list available serial ports with detailed information
$ platformio serialports monitor --port /dev/USB0 --baudrate 9600

[DArtagan]

Because Platformio requires Python anyways, we may be able to use pySerial across all platforms. http://playground.arduino.cc/interfacing/python

I'll keep looking to see if someone has already made a complete arduino-like serial monitor in python.

I agree with splitting the serialports command.

[DArtagan]

Possibly this is an implementation: http://shallowsky.com/blog/hardware/ardmonitor.html
I'll get my board out later and give it a try.

[ivankravets]

If we decide to use Python for terminal emulation, I propose to look in to Miniterm. It is well tested and should work on Unix/Win platforms.

I'm going to test it today. If it works good, I will implement it on "$ platformio serialports monitor" command.

I would be grateful, if you test Miniterm for your platforms.

[DArtagan]

I'm impressed how quickly you brought this together, thank you. It's working exactly as I'd expect, +1 for testing. Tonight I tried it with Arch linux and an Uno. I'll post if I try another platform.

[ivankravets]

Thanks a lot for this request and testing 👍

Don't forget about documentation for platformio serialports monitor