- Maintainer : Thomas Maurice tmaurice59@gmail.com
- Current version : 0.2
- Developpement status : Still being developped :)
- Portability : Linux and Windows (with Python 2.6)
This is a python script which allow you to communicate with serial devices.
As I noticed that sometimes minicom is not enough to debug serial devices (especially if they send you non printable ascii chars) I decided to develop a small alternative, here it is.
To run this software you need:
- python (version 2.7.5 in my case but works fine with 2.6 too)
- pyGTK (version >= 2.0)
- pyserial (the latest the better)
- docopt
You simply run the program by typing ./pyserialcom.py in
a terminal and here you go ! It will try to find the first USB to serial
adapter and open it (ttyACMX ot ttyUSBX devices), the default baudrate is 9600.
If you require a specific port or baudrate, here is the compete syntax :
Usage:
pyserialcom.py [--baudrate=<BAUD>] [--port=<PORT>]
Options:
-h --help Displays help
-p PORT --port=<PORT> The serial port file to use
-b BAUD --baudrate=<BAUD> The baudrate to use [default: 9600]
If no options are provided, the default 9600 baudrate will be used
and the serial port will be detected from any /dev/ttyACM* or /dev/ttyUSB*
Once you have connected to the device, it will print in the console every byte recieved which can be a problem if the characters are not printable. Your console can quickly become a mess !
To avoid that you can select the way you want data to be output in the console :
- ASCII (default) : Will just print out the characters to the console regardless of their printability
- Hex : Will output the hexadecimal value of the characters
- Both : will output the hex value, and the ASCII one if the character is printable
To be more clear, here is a small recap :
Character 'a'. ASCII : a, Hex : [0x61], Both [0x61 a]
Another exemple with a non printable one :
Character '\n'. ASCII : \n, Hex : [0xa ], Both [0xa .]
Enjoy :)