Node-Serialport-Worker

Run Node-serialport in a separate process!

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This module is aimed for creating a interface for using node-serialport in a seperate node process

My goal is to have the same api as the original node-serialport https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport.

API

I'm trying to create a uniform api to make using serial-worker as easy as re-writting require("serialport") to require("serial-worker")

Current Supported API:

• Serial.SerialPort SerialPort Constructor
• Serial.list List current available ports
• Serial.parser Original serialport parsers
• SerialPort.isOpen(callback) Note this method is Async, which is different than the original serialport.isOpen
• SerialPort.on('open') SerialPort Open Event
• SerialPort.on('data') SerialPort Data Event
• SerialPort.on('close') SerialPort Close Event
• SerialPort.on('disconnect') SerialPort Disconnect Event
• SerialPort.on('error')
• SerialPort.pause() Pause Connection
• SerialPort.resume() Resume Connection
• SerialPort.close(callback) Close port
• SerialPort.open(callback) Open port
• SerialPort.set(options,callback)
• SerialPort.write(buffer,callback) Writes data to the SerialPort.
• SerialPort.flush(callback)
• SerialPort.drain(callback)

Usage

$ npm install serial-worker

Use serial worker just like the original node-serialport

const serial = require('serialport-worker');
var port = new serial.SerialPort(path, options, immediate, callback);

serial.list((e,ports)=>{
    console.log(ports)
});

port.on('data',(data)=>{
  console.log(data);
});

port.open(()=>{
    port.write(new Buffer('Hello!','utf8'),()=>{
        console.log('Written!');
    });
})

Known Issues

Please let Me know any problem/issues

For serialport API https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport

Testing

I'm trying to figure out how to test port connection on travis-ci Right now I'm testing locally with a Arduino Uno

If you want to test locally, please set noTravis to true in test/serialport-0.js

Currently some tests are copied from node-serialport ( https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport ), in the future, hope serialport worker will pass all node-serialport tests