Serial

A Go package to allow you to read and write from the serial port as a stream of bytes.

Details

It aims to have the same API on all platforms, including windows. As an added bonus, the windows package does not use cgo, so you can cross compile for windows from another platform.

Windows support is turned off at this moment

Currently there is very little in the way of configurability. You can set the baud rate. Then you can Read(), Write(), or Close() the connection. By default Read() will block until at least one byte is returned. Write is the same.

Currently all ports are opened with 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, no hardware flow control, and no software flow control. This works fine for many real devices and many faux serial devices including usb-to-serial converters and Bluetooth serial ports.

You may Read() and Write() simultaneously on the same connection (from different goroutines).

Usage

package main

import (
        "log"

        "github.com/NotifAi/serial"
)

func main() {
        c := serial.Config{Name: "COM45", Baud: 115200}
        s, err := serial.OpenPort(c)
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
        
        n, err := s.Write([]byte("test"))
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
        
        buf := make([]byte, 128)
        n, err = s.Read(buf)
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
        log.Printf("%q", buf[:n])
}