Serial IO

This SerialIO Beta adds support for sending Binary data.

To send binary data, 2 new inputs were created on the Serial Output patch: Binary Data, which takes a string input, and Binary Trigger, which sends the binary data.

Instructions: The string input needs to be formatted in hexadecimal with no spaces ('00ffeedd', not '00 ff ee dd'). It accepts lower or upper case ('00FFEEDD' is the same as '00ffeedd'). do not prefix a '$', a '0x', an '&', or any other common prefix to denote hexadecimal data. The input is limited to 131072 characters (65536 output bytes). If a non-hex character is encountered, it is treated as a zero ('ffeeddgg' is the same as 'ffeedd00'). Characters are expected to come in multiples of 2, ('00112233445566' [14 characters] not '012' [3 characters]) — odd characters are ignored ('012' is the same as '01').

I'm unsure if this works (again, no serial devices where I'm at at the moment), so please test it and send me your console logs — it'll write in the log for every read and write, to help me figure out what's happening if something goes wrong.

This update to the Serial IO beta addresses a few issues in the 20071218 beta.

Multiple patches should now be able to share the same device without causing the "Device or Resource Busy" messages. Hopefully it'll allow input and output to the same device from different patches.

It's also built against a 10.4 target, so it runs on Tiger without "_open$UNIX2003 symbol not found" errors.

Serial Devices are now closed when patches are deallocated.

Logging is a bit more uniform. Please continue to include Console.app output when reporting success or failure.

Otherwise, the interface is identical.

This quick update for the Serial IO patch allows it to work on Tiger. A small plist setting was incorrect, which caused it to not load.

Sorry about that.

This is the first release of our Serial IO Plugin.

This plugin offers two new patches: Serial Input and Serial Output.

They're totally untested (I couldn't find any serial devices here at work to experiment with), so their output is extremely verbose. Please test it a bit, and tell us if they worked, or if they didn't, and what Console.app says afterwards.

If they work, please let us know that too; that way we can disable some of the messages to make them smaller and faster, for better performances.