Elliott Kipp/edk4971 posted in the forums on how to configure a Linux TTY with the correct parity, baud, etc to talk to Arduino.
Repeating it here:
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs8 115200 ignbrk -brkint -icrnl -imaxbel -opost -onlcr -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke noflsh -ixon -crtscts
make sure /dev/ttyUSB0 or whatever your Arduino's port is, and 115200 is the baud you did your Serial.begin(XXXX) with.
You can then do:
echo "Hello Arduino" > /dev/ttyUSB0 to send the string (followed by a newline) to your Arduino.
Taken from this forum: http://www.crystalfontz.com/forum/showthread.php?p=19562
You can also do:
tail -f /dev/ttyUSB0 to read what your Arduino has to tell you.
TODO: Is there any problem with buffering (and if so, how do we flush) if we send content with no end of line:
echo -n "Hello" > /dev/ttyUSB0
This is an easy way to make an interactive session, but it requires busybox utilities
# First install busybox using your favorite pm (apt-get, aptitude, yum etc) apt-get install busybox #then use microcom to make an interactive session busybox microcom -t 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0
this first comment on todbot's post on serial c code to talk to Arduino shows how to get an interactive session with Arduino using the screen command.
screen /dev/cu.usbserial 9600
I haven't tested this yet.
1) Program the Arduino with the example code include in the SimpleMessageSystem library (leave the baud rate at 9600 for this example).
2) Open a terminal window.
3) Enter the following command (that differs slightly from above):
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs8 9600 ignbrk -brkint -imaxbel -opost -onlcr -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke noflsh -ixon -crtscts
4) Start screen by typing the following:
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600
5) Start by pressing the enter/return key to clear the Arduino's buffer.
6) Type the following commands, followed by pressing the enter/return key for each message (please be warned that the characters will not appear as you type them, but the Arduino rx/tx LEDs will blink, this is considered normal behavior):
w d 13 1
r a
r d
The first message will turn on a LED connected to port 13. The second message will return the value of all the analog inputs. The third message will return the value of all the digital inputs.
8/7/08-by Roland Latour (rolandl@cavenet.com) There's a better way. 'screen' actually forks a second process to catch data coming the other way. So you need a helper process. My shell script package does that, and interprets and formats the data. Now with a GUI provided by the Xdialog command. Run 'wget http://user.cavenet.com/rolandl/SMS1.tgz' to get the tarball.
Added 6/16/2009-by Lee:
On my system, the Arduino development environment doesn't close the port /dev/ttyUSB0 quite right.
The scheme for my project is to send serial data out the USB type B connector on my Arduino Mega into a file. Open the file in a spreadsheet..
cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > datafile gnumeric < datafile
Specifically: The arduino-0015 development application does not close or release /dev/ttyUSB0 on Linux systems completely.
As a result, "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" fails if you have used the serial data display in the Arduino development application.
To re-capture the data use "screen"
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 // Kill screen with ^ak or control-a k
An alternate way to stop the screen program: Display the process table and kill screen using the PID in column two.
ps aux // see screen and SCREEN processes. Note PID in column 2 kill 9264 9265 // screen is gone and "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" now works
Background about the environment for these commands: My Arduino hardware is an Arduino Mega, I can see the data being printed by the Arduino board in Serial Monitor. This should work before you can get data from /dev/ttyUSB0. The computer runs a mix of Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04. End of note by Lee.
Added 9-jun-2011 - by The Dare Guy (http://twitter.com/thedareguy):
Find what USB port uses Arduino when you plug it into your computer. It can be something like /ttyUSBx or /ttyACMx (this is my case). To find the answer unplug the Arduino from the USB, run a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
$ cd /dev $ ls tty*
... tty8 tty9 ttyS0 ttyS1 ...
Plug in the Arduino into the USB and type in the terminal:
$ ls tty*
You will find a new device! My case:
... tty8 tty9 ttyACM0 <-- New device ttyS0 ttyS1 ...
Your program in Arduino must have initialised Serial Interface at a speed with Serial.begin(<speed>).
The interface you are going to run ('cu') is so simple that every keypress will be sent to the serial device without echo, and every char sent by Arduino will be sent to your screen. There is no chance to stop 'cu', only by killing the Terminal window you are running.
Type in the terminal:
$ cu -l /dev/<device> -s <speed>
In my case:
$ cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 -s 115200
All done!
If 'cu' is not installed, type in the Terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install cu
That's all folks! 9-jun-2011 - by The Dare Guy (http://twitter.com/thedareguy)
The tail method did not work for me after setting term capabilities with stty.
However, this worked for me:
cat </dev/ttyUSB0
When all else fails, except for the Arduino GUI's serial monitor does, run the following with the Arduino serial monitor open:
stty -a < /dev/ttyACM0 #or whatever your Arduino happens to use, e.g. sometimes /dev/ttyUSB0
This will print the settings that the serial monitor uses, e.g.:
you@yourpc:~% stty -a < /dev/ttyUSB0 speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 0; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl -ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8 -opost -olcuc -ocrnl -onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt -echoctl -echoke
Now, if you want your scripts to use the same settings, just run the following (once) before your scripts. You may obviously need to adapt it to whatever stty printed out before.
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl \ -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel \ -iutf8 -opost -olcuc -ocrnl -onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill \ -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 -isig -icanon -iexten \ -echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt \ -echoctl -echoke
Note: This didn't make screen work for me, but at least my scripts work again.
Credits for this method go to ninjalj for his comment on Stack Overflow
This worked for me: ArduinoLinuxSerial https://github.com/msillano/ArduinoLinuxSerial Protocol in PHP, with a Bash script to sertup /dev/ttyACM0. (Added 2017-12-10 by msillano)