Connect to Serial Port Using Perl

This is a simple example of how to control a serial port using perl in linux.
For WIN32 systems please check out the Win32::Serial module.

#!/usr/bin/perl


use Device::SerialPort;
my $port = Device::SerialPort->new("/dev/ttyUSB0");

$port->databits(8);

$port->baudrate(19200);

$port->parity("none");

$port->stopbits(1);

while(1) { my $byte=$port->read(1); print "$byte"; }

10 responses to “Connect to Serial Port Using Perl”

pixel says:

01/20/2013 at 14:57

if you take a look at the original post above you should see how to read from the serial port once you have connected. I have included below for clarity.

while(1) {
my $byte=$port->read(1);
print “$byte”;
}
Mihai Beffa says:

01/19/2013 at 22:23

I am not a programmer. I try to crank up a small perl script to read an IO Board through the serial port. If I send the command ~ver~ from minicom, the board responds with ~VER:3.1~

When I ran the following code, the board prints the correct response into the minicom window. How can I read the port from perl?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Device::SerialPort;
my $port = Device::SerialPort ->new(“/dev/ttyACM0”);
$port->baudrate(115200);
$port->parity(“none”);
$port->databits(8);
$port->stopbits(1);
$port->handshake(“xoff”);
$port->write_settings;
$port->write(“~ver~”);

# how can I read the port?
John Doe says:

09/07/2012 at 19:42

Don’t forget to $port->write_settings; or you will be left wondering why things are not working the way you expect.

Following from cpan doc on Device::SerialPort (which is a cut and paste of the Win32::SerialPort doc)

$PortObj = new Win32::SerialPort ($PortName, $quiet)
|| die “Can’t open $PortName: $^E\n”; # $quiet is optional

$PortObj->user_msg(ON);
$PortObj->databits(8);
$PortObj->baudrate(9600);
$PortObj->parity(“none”);
$PortObj->stopbits(1);
$PortObj->handshake(“rts”);

$PortObj->write_settings || undef $PortObj;
pixel says:

05/07/2012 at 13:01

Sorry Jaynail I have not personally used the zwave controller in my projects so I don’t have much advise to give in relation to zwave.
Jaynail says:

04/30/2012 at 03:43

Hi all

Need help,

Did you experience using zwave controller in linux host? How did you manage the data?