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I am developing a cross-platform User Interface with Qt, and I need to communicate through a serial port.I am able to use the serial port on Windows and Linux by using the following port names:
- COM1, COM2, and so on, on Windows;
- ttyACM0, ttyS0, ttyS1, etc, on Linux.
Now I want to do the same on Mac OS X. Do you know which are the possible port names on Mac OS X?
Thanks in advance!
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MikaelMikael
5 Answers
They could be pretty much anything. They'll probably be
/dev/tty.SOMETHING
, but there's no guarantee of that. For example, my USB->serial dongle is: /dev/tty.usbserial-FTG6RCEJ
. The last bit of gibberish there is a serial number or something, I think.Shouldn't you be asking the user for which port to use, anyway?
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Using an Arduino, one of mine is:
/dev/tty.usbmodemfa131
The last 5 characters are different for each port.
David IngledowDavid Ingledow1,0202 gold badges13 silver badges30 bronze badges
The name of the serial port in OS X is dependant on the driver. It might be something like
/dev/tty.USBSERIAL/
and it might be /dev/tty.PL2303-xxx
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You might wish to have the user create a symlink such as
/dev/tty.MY_APP_USB
that points to their specific serial port.BertBert
To use the programmer in Mac OS X, you will need to determine which names have been assigned to its serial ports.
To do this, open a Terminal window, type
ls /dev/tty.usb*
, and press enter. You should see two entries of the form tty.usbmodem<number>
(e.g. /dev/tty.usbmodem00022331
). These entries represent virtual serial ports created by the programmer.The entry with the lower number is your programmer’s Programming Port, and later you will need to pass its name as a parameter to AVRDUDE. The entry with the higher number (which should be two plus the lower number) is the TTL Serial Port, and you can use a terminal program such as
screen
to send and receive bytes from it.If you have other USB devices plugged in, you might see additional serial ports for those devices.
Rupesh HarodeRupesh Harode
many USB->miniUSB cables no has all pins plugged, only Vcc and GND. Them, cables may be the problem
Angelo ZaniniAngelo Zanini
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I'm talking to hardware with a protocol that uses characters like 0x04 and 0x02 which be sent with any other terminal using keystrokes, and this app definitely beats having to create text files with these characters and sending them to hardware using Hyperterminal on the PC.
Also, being able to view responses from the target in Hex format is really helpful.
I'm talking to hardware with a protocol that uses characters like 0x04 and 0x02 which be sent with any other terminal using keystrokes, and this app definitely beats having to create text files with these characters and sending them to hardware using Hyperterminal on the PC.
Also, being able to view responses from the target in Hex format is really helpful.
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Hi, there:
It seems not handle ANSI control key.
-kevin
Hi, there:
It seems not handle ANSI control key.
-kevin
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Release Date | January 07, 2018 |
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