feature request: built-in support for serialport

[cnotch]

[Fishrock123]

Is this a feature request?

This stuff lives quite happily already in user-land: https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport

Is there a good reason that should change?

[mikeal]

not that happily, but we may need more work in libuv before talking about taking this in to core. @voodootikigod

[voodootikigod]

I'd rather node/io get proper ability to provide SOCK_OPTS on file descriptors for many reasons not JUST serial port and then serial port can be only JS.

[Qard]

I don't think serialport should be in core, but I'm 👍 on including the functionality needed to be able to do a userland module in pure JS.

[Fishrock123]

but isn't this like the entire "websocket support" in core then?

[Qard]

I'd think using websockets would be somewhat more common than using serialport though. I think it's mostly a concern of if there'd be enough people committed to maintaining it. I'm not firmly against serialport in core, but I'm not convinced it should be there.

[cnotch]

I use IO.js developing desktop software, need access to a lot of serialport-based devices. If I used a third-party module(https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport), It has version matching problem and installation problem ...
IO.js version changes so often!

[voodootikigod]

i blame io.js.

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:01 PM, yrushi75 notifications@github.com wrote:

I use IO.js developing desktop software, need access to a lot of
serialport-based devices. If I used a third-party module(
https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport), It has version
matching problem and installation problem ...
IO.js version changes so often!

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[rvagg]

@yrushi75 the current goal is that within any major-version of io.js, compiled addons should still work regardless of minor and patch version number. We're going to hit 2.0.0 soon which, amongst other things, indicates a need to recompile addons but beyond that you shouldn't need to and if you are then perhaps you could file a bug report so we can look at it.

[kyriosli]

I think it easy to interpret a serial port in unix/linux/darwin with module tty, but difficult to port on windows.

So if you are working under *nix, there is no worry about io.js's version change, just do it yourself, write your own serial port interpreter:

input = require('tty').ReadStream(require('fs').openSync('/dev/tty.usbserial', 'r'));
// since io.js does not support both read and write on same fd, we need to open the device twice

[saghul]

FWIW: libuv/libuv#19