nanocom 1.0.0

An ultra simple serial client using pyserial.

An ultra simple serial client using pyserial.

Usage

Install it using

pip install nanocom

Example usage would be

nanocom --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baudrate 115200

The following options are available

-h, --help       Show the help message and exit.
-v, --version    Show the version and exit.
-p, --port       The serial port. Examples include /dev/tty.usbserial or /dev/ttyUSB0.
-b, --baudrate   The baudrate of the serial port. The default is 115200.
-c, --exit-char  The exit character. The default is ], so Ctrl+] will be used to exit.

Why another serial client?

I couldn’t find anything to suit my need. I just wanted to talk to a Raspberry Pi through the serial terminal just as I would do with SSH! I tried many different things, from GNU Screen to bash scripts. But they all were either too clunky, interfered with tmux, or didn’t pass ANSI escape codes through. The best thing I found was python -m serial.tools.miniterm but it had an odd menu system that wasn’t needed. Nanocom is a simple modification of serial.tools.miniterm.