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pyserial
Encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends for Python running on Windows, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant system), Jython and IronPython (.NET and Mono), as stated in http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/.
SlackBuild page http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/python/pyserial/.
Setup port
Add a existing user to existing group
Add existing user tony to ftp supplementary/secondary group with the usermod command using the -a option ~ i.e. add the user to the supplemental group(s). Use only with -G option:
1 usermod -a -G dialout userx
SlackBuild for Slackware 14 (32 bit)
Run commands:
1 su
2 cd tmp
3 wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0/python/pyserial.tar.gz
4 tar xvzf pyserial.tar.gz
5 cd pyserial
6 wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyserial/pyserial-2.6.tar.gz
7 chmod 755 pyserial.SlackBuild
8 ./pyserial.SlackBuild
9 installpkg /tmp/pyserial-2.6-i486-1_SBo.tgz
SlackBuild for Slackware64 14 (64 bit)
Run commands:
1 su
2 cd tmp
3 wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0/python/pyserial.tar.gz
4 tar xvzf pyserial.tar.gz
5 cd pyserial
6 wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyserial/pyserial-2.6.tar.gz
7 chmod 755 pyserial.SlackBuild
8 ./pyserial.SlackBuild
9 installpkg /tmp/pyserial-2.6-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
Raspberry pi and raspberry pico
test-serial.py
1 import serial
2 ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0',115200)
3 ser.write(b'ping\n')
4 line = ser.readline()
5 print(line.replace("\n",""))
6 ser.write(b'adc2\n')
7 line = ser.readline()
8 print(line.replace("\n",""))
9 ser.write(b'adc4\n')
10 line = ser.readline()
11 print(line.replace("\n",""))
12 ser.close()