UART is a simple wrapper around the ruby-termios gem that gives you an easy interface for setting up a UART or serial connection. This gem is written in pure Ruby. This gem relies on ruby-termios to provide bindings to the termios system call, but uses those bindings to set up a serial connection in pure Ruby.
- No C code
- No FFI code
- Seems to work
Here is an example of writing to an LCD screen over UART. The speed is 9600, 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit:
require 'uart'
UART.open '/dev/tty.usbserial-00000000' do |serial|
str = 'Hello World!'
serial.write [0x8A, 0xA8, 0x00, 0x00, str.bytesize].pack 'C5'
serial.write str.b
p serial.read(4).unpack('C4').map { |x| x.to_s(16) }
end
MHZ-19B CO2 sensor for Raspberry Pi
require 'uart'
a = UART.open('/dev/ttyAMA0') { |s| s.write("\xFF\x01\x86\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x79"); s.read(9).unpack('C9')}
{ temp: a[4] - 40, co2: a[2] * 256 + a[3] } if 256 - a[1..7].reduce(&:+)%256 == a[8]
Plantower Particle Sensor
require 'uart'
require 'io/wait'
class Sample < Struct.new(:time,
:pm1_0_standard, :pm2_5_standard, :pm10_standard,
:pm1_0_env, :pm2_5_env,
:concentration_unit,
:particle_03um, :particle_05um, :particle_10um,
:particle_25um, :particle_50um, :particle_100um)
end
uart = UART.open ARGV[0], 9600, '8N1'
p Sample.members # header
loop do
uart.wait_readable
start1, start2 = uart.read(2).bytes
# According to the data sheet, packets always start with 0x42 and 0x4d
unless start1 == 0x42 && start2 == 0x4d
# skip a sample
uart.read
next
end
length = uart.read(2).unpack('n').first
data = uart.read(length)
crc = 0x42 + 0x4d + 28 + data.bytes.first(26).inject(:+)
data = data.unpack('n14')
next unless crc == data.last # crc failure
p Sample.new(Time.now.utc, *data.first(12)).to_a
end
Flipper Zero client (thanks to Ted Han!!)
require 'uart'
# find your flipper zero device handle: https://docs.flipper.net/development/cli#rnDLl
fname = ARGV.shift # provide the path to your flipper zero
raise "Please specify a device to open" if fname.nil?
raise "Couldn't find #{fname}" unless File.exist?(fname)
# open the flipper and specify the correct baud
UART.open fname, 115200 do |flipper|
# read & print the Flipper Zero terminal art
puts flipper.read
# input command, or "help" if no command is supplied
message = ARGV.join(" ") || "help"
flipper.write "#{message}\r\n" # flipper cli uses \r\n to terminate lines.
# read & print message output
puts flipper.read
end
- ruby-termios
gem install uart
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