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RIOT/dist/tools/usb-serial/README.md
Joakim Gebart 086825bfa3 dist: Add tools for finding USB serial adapters on Linux.
These tools can be used to find the corresponding TTY device node of
attached USB serial adapter devices.
2015-02-09 19:43:18 +01:00

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USB to serial adapter tools
================================
Tools for finding connected USB to serial adapter devices.
Usage
-----
./list-ttys.sh
List all currently connected USB to serial adapters by searching through
`/sys/bus/usb/devices/`.
./find-tty.sh [serial_regex1] [serial_regex2] ... [serial_regexZ]
Write to `stdout` the first tty connected to the chosen programmer.
`serial_regexN` are extended regular expressions (as understood by `egrep`)
containing a pattern matched against the USB device serial number. Each of the
given expressions are tested, against each serial number until a match has been
found.
In order to search for an exact match against the device serial, use
'^serialnumber$' as the pattern. If no pattern is given, `find-tty.sh` returns
the first found USB tty (in an arbitrary order, this is not guaranteed to be
the `/dev/ttyUSBX` with the lowest number).
Serial strings from all connected USB ttys can be found from the list generated
by `list-ttys.sh`.
Exit codes
----------
`find-tty.sh` returns 0 if a match is found, 1 otherwise.
Makefile example usage
----------------------
The script `find-tty.sh` is designed for use from within a board
`Makefile.include`. An example section is shown below (for an OpenOCD based
solution):
# Add serial matching command
ifneq ($(PROGRAMMER_SERIAL),)
OOCD_BOARD_FLAGS += -c 'ftdi_serial $(PROGRAMMER_SERIAL)'
ifeq ($(PORT),)
# try to find tty name by serial number, only works on Linux currently.
ifeq ($(OS),Linux)
PORT := $(shell $(RIOTBASE)/dist/tools/usb-serial/find-tty.sh "^$(PROGRAMMER_SERIAL)$$")
endif
endif
endif
# Fallback PORT if no serial was specified or if the specified serial was not found
ifeq ($(PORT),)
ifeq ($(OS),Linux)
PORT := $(shell $(RIOTBASE)/dist/tools/usb-serial/find-tty.sh)
else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
PORT := $(shell ls -1 /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART* | head -n 1)
endif
endif
# TODO: add support for windows as host platform
ifeq ($(PORT),)
$(info CAUTION: No terminal port for your host system found!)
endif
export PORT
Limitations
-----------
Only tested on Linux, and probably only works on Linux.