Reputation: 361
I need to communicate with a serial port inside a Perl script. I need to send characters and read the input and search for strings.
What is the simplest way to achieve this? By using "expect" or by opening the /dev/ttys0 device in Perl itself ? Or some other method ?
I prefer to use perl but I don't know if it is simple and featured as expect.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 17623
Reputation: 2494
my $port = new Device::SerialPort("/dev/ttyS0");
$port->user_msg(ON);
$port->baudrate(9600);
$port->parity("none");
$port->databits(8);
$port->stopbits(1);
$port->handshake("xoff");
$port->write_settings;
$port->lookclear;
$port->write("some command to com-port");
my $answer = $port->lookfor;
# or my $answer=$port->read(255);
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 1652
You can try Win32::SerialPort
for Win32 and Device::SerialPort
for linux.
Upvotes: 3