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tio - A simple serial device I/O tool for linux
lundmar:
--- Quote from: HoracioDos on October 07, 2017, 01:11:15 pm ---Hi.
Until now I was used to cu and screen. Now I'm trying Tio. For Gui: CuteCom, Moserial and CoolTerm work fine. For terminal: Tilix
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:-+
You have mentioned that your current GNU/Linux distribution is Mint.
I've talked to the Debian package maintainer of tio and he will soon upgrade it to latest version. Since Mint is a Debian derivative you should soon get access to the latest version via your package manager.
HoracioDos:
--- Quote from: lundmar on October 07, 2017, 08:04:13 pm ---I've talked to the Debian package maintainer of tio and he will soon upgrade it to latest version.
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Double :-+ . Mint has a debian edition.
--- Quote from: lundmar on October 07, 2017, 08:04:13 pm ---Since Mint is a Debian derivative you should soon get access to the latest version via your package manager.
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Mint is an Ubuntu derivative mainly. Ubuntu and Debian package maintainers teams and repos are different. I don't know how they talk to each other.
lundmar:
--- Quote from: HoracioDos on October 07, 2017, 08:38:09 pm ---Mint is an Ubuntu derivative mainly. Ubuntu and Debian package maintainers teams and repos are different. I don't know how they talk to each other.
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True, they are not exactly the same. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. They all pick and choose and customize as they need. That being said, they are all generally the same - mainly a Debian derivative. Changes/additions in Debian usually trickle down to the other derivatives after some time.
radar_macgyver:
Thanks for this, handling USB to serial adapter disconnects smoothly is an option that helps a lot when dealing with embedded targets that need reboots.
--- Quote from: nctnico on October 01, 2017, 10:23:52 am ---With the serial port closed you should be able to scroll back and forth through the history. Hyperterminal does all that so I'm still using it through a VM because there simply isn't a Linux alternative.
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I've used picocom in the past, and when you quit, you can use your terminal emulator's scrollback buffer to view what came out of the serial port. I'm guessing tio does the same.
lundmar:
--- Quote from: radar_macgyver on October 07, 2017, 09:18:04 pm ---Thanks for this, handling USB to serial adapter disconnects smoothly is an option that helps a lot when dealing with embedded targets that need reboots.
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I think it is a useful feature, especially if you are connecting/disconnecting various boards during the day in your work or hacking sessions. You simply start tio for your serial device and leave it there for the rest of the day watching it automatically connect and reconnect. Most other terminal tools require some sort of restart for this scenario.
NOTE: Make sure to use a serial tty device found in /dev/serial/by-id/ otherwise it might pop up as a different tty device file when reconnected and then tio will not find it again.
--- Quote from: radar_macgyver on October 07, 2017, 09:18:04 pm ---I've used picocom in the past, and when you quit, you can use your terminal emulator's scrollback buffer to view what came out of the serial port. I'm guessing tio does the same.
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Absolutely, tio is intentionally made so it does not get in your way by messing with your terminal using fancy ncurses features and buffers etc.. When you quit tio you can use your terminals scroll buffer to view all your history only limited by your terminals scroll buffer size.
If one does not want to use scroll buffers then tio also supports logging to a file.
Btw, Mac Gyver forever! ;)
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