read from serial port

asked 2011-08-01 18:47:22 +0100

Bill
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I'm trying to get sagemath to read from my USB port which has an arduino attached to it. The arduino is throwing a bunch of text to the serial port with address /dev/ttyUSB0

A preliminary Google search reveals that there is a python library pySerial which is designed to do just this. Can I make sagemath recognize this library somehow?

Thanks!

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answered 2011-08-01 19:28:59 +0100

benjaminfjones
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You should install the python library using sage -python. See the answer to this related question: http://ask.sagemath.org/question/537/...

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I executed this commange from the pySerial folder: sage -python setup.py install

Bill ( 2011-08-01 19:43:30 +0100 )edit

now in a sage notebook, my commands "import serial" "import pySerial" "import pyserial-2.5, etc all give errors.

Bill ( 2011-08-01 19:44:39 +0100 )edit

It would be helpful if you post the actual code that produces the error and the error itself.

benjaminfjones ( 2011-08-01 19:45:31 +0100 )edit

>import pyserial No module named serial

Bill ( 2011-08-01 19:47:28 +0100 )edit

import pyserial-2.5 SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Bill ( 2011-08-01 19:47:52 +0100 )edit

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answered 2011-08-02 22:17:24 +0100

Bill
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This ended up working for me, both in command line, and notebook:

cmd_folder = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath('/home/william/pyserial-2.5/serial'))
if cmd_folder not in sys.path:
    sys.path.insert(0, cmd_folder)
import serial

I found the solution here.

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