https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial

Example C and Java host code to talking to an arduino or other "serial" device
https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial

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Example C and Java host code to talking to an arduino or other "serial" device

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial
• Owner: todbot
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-05-12T07:54:54.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-11T02:58:23.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-16T05:06:50.272Z (12 days ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://todbot.com/blog/
• Size: 274 KB
• Stars: 236
• Watchers: 30
• Forks: 84
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
arduino-serial -- C code to talk to Arduino

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Original URL: http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/06/arduino-serial-c-code-to-talk-to-arduino/

Post about changes: http://todbot.com/blog/2013/04/29/arduino-serial-updated/

Usage

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laptop%  ./arduino-serial

Usage: arduino-serial -b  -p  [OPTIONS]


Options:

  -h, --help                 Print this help message

  -b, --baud=baudrate        Baudrate (bps) of Arduino (default 9600)

  -p, --port=serialport      Serial port Arduino is connected to

  -s, --send=string          Send string to Arduino

  -S, --sendline=string      Send string with newline to Arduino

  -r, --receive              Receive string from Arduino & print it out

  -n  --num=num              Send a number as a single byte

  -F  --flush                Flush serial port buffers for fresh reading

  -d  --delay=millis         Delay for specified milliseconds

  -e  --eolchar=char         Specify EOL char for reads (default '\n')

  -t  --timeout=millis       Timeout for reads in millisecs (default 5000)

  -q  --quiet                Don't print out as much info

Note: Order is important. Set '-b' baudrate before opening port'-p'.

      Used to make series of actions: '-d 2000 -s hello -d 100 -r'

      means 'wait 2secs, send 'hello', wait 100msec, get reply'



Downloads

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For convenience, here's some pre-built versions of arduino-serial. 

They may not be updated regularly, so compile it yourself if you can.

Click the "view raw" to get the actual zip file.

- https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial/blob/master/arduino-serial-macosx.zip

- https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial/blob/master/arduino-serial-linux.zip

Compilation

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arduino-serial should compile on any POSIX-compatible system.

Tested on Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Raspian Linux, Beaglebone Linux

To build, just check it out, make, and run it like:


% git clone https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial.git

% cd arduino-serial

% make

% ./arduino-serial



For more details on the build process, see the Makefile.