The operations that are supported are:
- Port enumeration (obtaining a list of serial ports on the system).
+- Obtaining port metadata (USB device information, Bluetooth address, etc).
- Opening and closing ports.
- Setting port parameters (baud rate, parity, etc).
- Reading, writing and flushing data.
does not, please submit a bug.
Enumeration is currently only implemented on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. On
-other systems enumeration will return no results, but ports can still be opened
-by name and then used.
+other systems enumeration is not supported, but ports can still be opened by
+name and then used.
If you know how to enumerate available ports on another OS, please submit a bug
with this information, or better still a patch implementing it.
-Future
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-
-Future versions will add additional API calls for obtaining metadata about a
-port, e.g. for USB devices the USB VID and PID of the underlying device.
-
Dependencies
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-On Linux, libudev is required. On other systems no other libraries are required.
-
-The libudev dependency could be eliminated in favour of direct sysfs queries at
-the cost of some brevity. This is not currently a priority but if you feel like
-doing this feel free to submit a patch.
+No other libraries are required.
Building
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