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danmac

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Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 7

Serial Communication

I am looking into ways to communicate over the serial line from arch, am I forced to write all the program myself?  The end game need is to use a program to communicate preprogramed strings to a serial device.  Anyone know of a program that might let me preprogram some strings into to send out?

Thanks

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Serial Communication

What happens when you 'echo somestring > /dev/yourSerialDevice' ?

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danmac

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Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 7

Re: Serial Communication

Not sure...  honestly didn't give it a ton of thought, had been writing a program for it and got kind of burnt out on programming.. figured I should double check I am not reinventing the wheel.

dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: Serial Communication

minicom is a full-blown serial comm program...
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=minicom

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: Serial Communication

gtkterm good enough, if your on a GUI environment.

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danmac

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Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 7

Re: Serial Communication

Still haven't had a chance to sit down and work with this..  its going on a mini-itx board thats mounted onto a mobile platform(for robotics use).  It communicates via one of its 6 serial lines to various PIC's to issue orders/check sensors.  Arch of course has *way* too high of a latency to ever be used to calculate things such as balance or movement, but it is useful for bigger picture thinking..  as such, I am trying to get my mini-itx communicating to the other parts using some preprogramming serial commands.

Thus, the question.   So in short, I am not in a GUI enviroment.  It might at one point be controlled by a GUI(Web page) but for now, its all terminal.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Serial Communication

I maintain 3 rather minimal serial tools in AUR, just in case you find minicom too bulky.
But it seems you're more interested in non-interactive usage... sorry, no idea there.

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