-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 12.4k
/
Copy pathserial_scanner.py
57 lines (45 loc) · 1.69 KB
/
serial_scanner.py
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
import sys
import serial
# A serial port-scanner for linux and windows platforms
# Author: Julio César Echeverri Marulanda
# e-mail: julio.em7@gmail.com
# blog: blogdelingeniero1.wordpress.com
# You should have installed the PySerial module to use this method.
# You can install pyserial with the following line: pip install pyserial
def ListAvailablePorts():
# This function return a list containing the string names for Virtual Serial Ports
# availables in the computer (this function works only for Windows & Linux Platforms but you can extend it)
# if there isn't available ports, returns an empty List
AvailablePorts = []
platform = sys.platform
if platform == "win32":
for i in range(255):
try:
ser = serial.Serial(i, 9600)
except serial.serialutil.SerialException:
pass
else:
AvailablePorts.append(ser.portstr)
ser.close()
elif platform == "linux":
for i in range(0, 255):
try:
ser = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB" + str(i))
except serial.serialutil.SerialException:
pass
else:
AvailablePorts.append("/dev/ttyUSB" + str(i))
ser.close()
else:
print(
"""This method was developed only for linux and windows
the current platform isn't recognised"""
)
if len(AvailablePorts) == 0:
print("NO port in use")
return 0
else:
return AvailablePorts
# EXAMPLE OF HOW IT WORKS
# if an Arduino is connected to the computer, the port will be show in the terminal
# print ListAvailablePorts()