flexiport

Flexiport multi-port driver. More...

Flexiport multi-port driver.

The flexiport driver provides access to a data communications device (such as a serial port or a TCP network port) via the Flexiport library. Any data received over this device is published, and any writes to this driver are written to the device. It does not process the data in any way.

Compile-time dependencies

• Flexiport 2.0 (from Github, see https://github.com/gbiggs/flexiport)

Provides

• opaque

Requires

• none

Configuration requests

• none

Configuration file options

• See Properties.

Properties (may also be set in the configuration file)

• portopts (string)
  • Default: "type=serial,device=/dev/ttyS0,timeout=1"
  • Options to create the Flexiport port with.
• buffer_size (integer)
  • The size of the buffer to be used when reading. This is the maximum that can be read in one read command
  • Default: 4096

Example

driver
(
  name "sicks3000"
  provides ["laser:0"]
  requires ["opaque:0"]
)

driver
(
  name "flexiport"
  provides ["opaque:0]
  portopts "type=serial,device=/dev/ttyACM0"
)

Author

Geoffrey Biggs