SerialManager 1.9

Abeeway configuration tool

Serial Device Manager

About

Python package made primarily to automate tasks related to configuring serial devices, and uploading them to cloud services.

[!WARNING] Right now it only supports the creation and implementation of configs to Abeeway's Smart Badge, and the ability to upload devices to ThingPark Community.

Installation

To install I recommend you use the package installer for Python - pip

  pip install serialmanager

Usages

  serialmgr abeeway config

Run this command to open the GUI related to device configuring.

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 serialmgr abeeway upload

Run this command to open the GUI related to building a CSV to upload info about the configured devices to a cloud service, in this case, ThingPark.

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 serialmgr abeeway create-cfg

Run this command to open the GUI related to creating a config file. Firmware 2.4-1

Compatibility

Operating Systems

[!NOTE] This doesn't mean another Windows version or Linux Distro isn't going to work, it's just that I haven't tested anywhere else

• Linux
  • Arch (KDE/XFCE)
• Windows
  • 11

Devices

• Abeeway Smart Badge
  • A310
  • U310

Firmware Version

[!NOTE] Other firmware versions work, but since configs values/parameters come and go with each version, the application's behaviour may vary depending on which version you have.

• Smart Badge U310/A310
  • 2.4.1

Known issues

• GUI doesn't stall user action when talking to devices properly, making it able to break communication with serial ports by forcing multiple calls to same serial port
  • (as far as I've looked, this doesn't kill the already established communication)
• Start device command is fairly unstable for reasons unknown at the moment
• Devices with firmware versions above or below 2.4-1 will report config error due to not having that config parameter

Future goals

• Change config file to yaml from cfg and add GUI to manipule it
• Language selection
• Support for multiple firmware versions
• Support for different types of devices
• Support for flashing the firmware of these devices

TO DO

• Add search bar to create-cfg