pyserial/pyserial

Features

• Hardware Communication - Establishes stable data links with external hardware by configuring baud rates, parity, and stop bits.
• Serial Port Interfaces - Provides a cross-platform library for reading and writing binary data to serial ports and hardware devices.
• Binary Stream Interfaces - Provides a binary stream interface that preserves null bytes and line endings during serial I/O.
• Port Enumeration - Identifies available serial ports on the system and retrieves hardware IDs and device path metadata.
• Stream Abstractions - Provides a standard file-like read and write interface that treats hardware ports as binary streams.
• Serial Communication Interfaces - Provides a cross-platform library to open and manage connections to serial hardware across different operating systems.
• Serial Data Streamers - Sends raw byte strings to connected serial devices to transmit commands or data.
• Serial Parameter Configurations - A feature of the project that adjusts baud rate, byte size, and flow control for external hardware communication.
• Serial Binary Transmission - Transmits and receives raw binary data through a serial port using a file-like interface.
• Serial Data Buffers - Retrieves data from serial ports by reading specific byte counts, single lines, or buffered data.
• Platform Backend Dispatchers - Selects the appropriate platform-specific driver implementation at runtime to handle low-level system calls across different operating systems.
• Runtime Parameter Tuning - Adjusts byte size, parity, and flow control to match the requirements of external hardware during execution.
• Serial-to-Network Converters - Forwards raw data between a local serial port and a network socket to allow remote hardware access.
• RS485 Communication - Manages half-duplex serial communication and RTS toggling for hardware devices operating on the RS485 standard.
• Hardware Filter Patterns - A feature of the project that finds available serial ports on the host system and filters them using regular expressions.
• Timeout Management - Sets the duration the system waits for incoming data to prevent application hangs.
• Interactive Terminals - Provides a console-based terminal emulator for interactive communication with connected serial devices.
• Embedded Device Debugging - Enables reading and writing raw binary data to embedded devices to monitor traffic and send commands.
• Hardware Device Discovery - Searches for available serial ports by matching regular expressions against device descriptions or hardware IDs.
• HID Device Communication - Implements a software-based communication stack to interact with USB HID hardware without kernel drivers.
• RS485 Communication Management - Manages RS485 settings and RTS toggling to support half-duplex serial communication on compatible hardware.
• RFC 2217 Clients - Provides a network client to manage remote serial port settings and signal lines via the RFC 2217 standard.
• RFC 2217 Implementations - Implements the RFC 2217 standard to manage remote serial port settings and signal lines over TCP/IP.
• RFC 2217 Servers - Implements an RFC 2217 server to handle protocol negotiation and control commands for network-to-serial conversion.
• Remote Management Access - Connects to hardware ports over a network using TCP sockets or the RFC 2217 protocol.
• RFC 2217 Implementations - Provides a network implementation for controlling remote serial port functions and signal lines over TCP/IP.

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