Python Programming
 
Forums: » Register « |  User CP |  Games |  Calendar |  Members |  FAQs |  Sitemap |  Support | 
User Name:
Password:
Remember me

The Shed is going Social! Join us on FaceBook and Twitter and chime in on the conversation.

Go Back   Dev Shed Forums > Programming Languages > Python Programming
Reload this Page

Serial communication with Python 2.7 on Win7?


Reply
Add This Thread To:
  Del.icio.us   Digg   Google   Spurl   Blink   Furl   Simpy   Y! MyWeb 
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »  
Thread Tools Search this Thread Rate Thread Display Modes
 
Unread Dev Shed Forums Sponsor:
  #1  
Old February 9th, 2013, 08:33 PM
Necron_99 Necron_99 is offline
Registered User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4 Necron_99 User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 h 32 m 17 sec
Reputation Power: 0
Serial communication with Python 2.7 on Win7?
I'm trying to write a program to communicate over serial with an arduino, and PySerial seems like the simplest solution if I can just get it installed, but the only file I can find to download to install it is a tar.gz file, which I don't think works on Windows.

One source I found said PySerial was not planning on updating to run on Win7. Is this true?

What's my simplest option here?
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old February 9th, 2013, 09:20 PM
b49P23TIvg's Avatar
b49P23TIvg b49P23TIvg is offline
Contributing User
Dev Shed Loyal (3000 - 3499 posts)
  
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,353 b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days 8 h 3 m 36 sec
Reputation Power: 383
Maybe you can open the devices like ser1: ? (about 30 years since I used that, maybe I remember incorrectly)

I thought arduino connected via USB?
__________________
[code]Code tags[/code] are essential for python code!
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old February 9th, 2013, 09:46 PM
Necron_99 Necron_99 is offline
Registered User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4 Necron_99 User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 h 32 m 17 sec
Reputation Power: 0
It's serial over USB. On my computer, it seems to be COM3. I can communicate with it over serial using the Arduino IDE's Serial Monitor.

I don't really care if it's serial or not, as long as it works with Python.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old February 10th, 2013, 05:21 AM
b49P23TIvg's Avatar
b49P23TIvg b49P23TIvg is offline
Contributing User
Dev Shed Loyal (3000 - 3499 posts)
  
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,353 b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days 8 h 3 m 36 sec
Reputation Power: 383
Use the mode command to setup the port then read and write from "com3:". I guess.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old February 10th, 2013, 09:34 AM
Dietrich's Avatar
Dietrich Dietrich is offline
Contributing User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 480 Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 3 Days 22 h 8 m 57 sec
Reputation Power: 63
You can find PySerial Windows installers at:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

Let us know how well you are doing with this.
__________________
Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old February 10th, 2013, 11:29 AM
Necron_99 Necron_99 is offline
Registered User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4 Necron_99 User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 h 32 m 17 sec
Reputation Power: 0
Thanks Dietrich, will the win32 version be ok on my win64 system?
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old February 10th, 2013, 11:31 AM
Necron_99 Necron_99 is offline
Registered User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4 Necron_99 User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 h 32 m 17 sec
Reputation Power: 0
Quote:
Originally Posted by b49P23TIvg
Use the mode command to setup the port then read and write from "com3:". I guess.



I am not familiar with this, is this something in the standard library?
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old February 10th, 2013, 12:07 PM
b49P23TIvg's Avatar
b49P23TIvg b49P23TIvg is offline
Contributing User
Dev Shed Loyal (3000 - 3499 posts)
  
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,353 b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level)b49P23TIvg User rank is Major (30000 - 40000 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days 8 h 3 m 36 sec
Reputation Power: 383
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old February 10th, 2013, 05:32 PM
Dietrich's Avatar
Dietrich Dietrich is offline
Contributing User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 480 Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level)Dietrich User rank is Second Lieutenant (5000 - 10000 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 3 Days 22 h 8 m 57 sec
Reputation Power: 63
The win32 version be ok on a win64 system, as long as you use a 32 bit Python version.
Last edited by Dietrich : February 10th, 2013 at 05:34 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old February 11th, 2013, 11:11 AM
Storm017 Storm017 is offline
Registered User
Dev Shed Newbie (0 - 499 posts)
  
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4 Storm017 User rank is Just a Lowly Private (1 - 20 Reputation Level) 
Time spent in forums: 1 h 17 m 6 sec
Reputation Power: 0
Right now I'm running Python 2.7 (64 Bit)and Pyserial on Windows 7 64-bit. So far it seems to be running fine, except for my errors.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Viewing: Dev Shed Forums > Programming Languages > Python Programming > Serial communication with Python 2.7 on Win7?

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Developer Shed Advertisers and Affiliates



Thread Tools  Search this Thread 
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes  Rate This Thread 
Linear Mode Linear Mode
Rate This Thread:


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
View Your Warnings | New Posts | Latest News | Latest Threads | Shoutbox
Forum Jump

Forums: » Register « |  User CP |  Games |  Calendar |  Members |  FAQs |  Sitemap |  Support | 
  
 


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

© 2003-2013 by Developer Shed. All rights reserved. DS Cluster - Follow our Sitemap