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Access virtual serial port outside Arduino IDE

I have a LighBlue Bean which is an Arduino compatible Bluetooth LE microcontroller. I'm trying to access its virtual serial port outside the Arduino IDE. I can see the serial data in the Arduino Serial Monitor and also in screen using the terminal command;

screen /tmp/tty.LightBlue-Bean 57600

However, the serial port doesn't show up in other apps in OS X such as Hairless MIDI to Serial Bridge or Ableton.

In terminal, the following command;

ls /dev/tty.*

does not list the Beans virtual serial port which is /tmp/tty.LightBlue-Bean. The following command does show it;

ls /tmp/tty.*

However, only serial ports starting /dev/ show up in other apps.

How can I make the virtual serial port of the LightBlue Bean visible in other apps so I can send serial data to them?

Solution

  • Try to symlink the port to /dev like that

    ln -s /tmp/tty.LightBlue-Bean /dev/tty.LightBlue-Bean

    You can also change the name to something simplier if you want.

    Hope this helps! :)