UART

Class: UART

The UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) class supports asynchronous serial communication.

• On Tizen, the port number is defined in this documentation.

uart.open(configuration, callback)

• configuration {Object}
  • device {string} Mandatory configuration. The specified device path.(Linux, Nuttx and TizenRT only)
  • port {number} Mandatory configuration. The specified port number. (Tizen only)
  • baudRate {number} Specifies how fast data is sent over a serial line. Default: 9600.
  • dataBits {number} Number of data bits that are being transmitted. Default: 8.
• callback {Function}.
  • err {Error|null}.
• Returns: {UARTPort}.

Opens an UARTPort object with the specified configuration.

The baudRate must be equal to one of these values: [0, 50, 75, 110, 134, 150, 200, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400].

The dataBits must be equal to one of these values: [5, 6, 7, 8].

On NuttX, you also need to set the properties of the configuration in the NuttX configuration file. Using the NuttX menuconfig, it can be found at the Device Drivers -> Serial Driver Support -> U[S]ART(N) Configuration section.

You can read more information about the usage of the UART on stm32f4-discovery board: STM32F4-discovery.

Example

var uart = require('uart');
var configuration = {
  device: '/dev/ttyUSB0'
  baudRate: 115200,
  dataBits: 8,
}
var serial = uart.open(configuration, function(err) {
  // Do something.
});
serial.closeSync();

uart.openSync(configuration)

• configuration {Object}
  • device {string} Mandatory configuration. The specified device path. (Linux, Nuttx and TizenRT only)
  • port {number} Mandatory configuration. The specified port number. (Tizen only)
  • baudRate {number} Specifies how fast data is sent over a serial line. Default: 9600.
  • dataBits {number} Number of data bits that are being transmitted. Default: 8.
• Returns: {UARTPort}.

Opens an UARTPort object with the specified configuration.

Example

var uart = require('uart');
var configuration = {
  device: '/dev/ttyUSB0'
  baudRate: 115200,
  dataBits: 8,
}
var serial = uart.openSync(configuration);
serial.closeSync();

Class: UARTPort

The UARTPort class is responsible for transmitting and receiving serial data.

uartport.write(data, callback).

• data {string}.
• callback {Function}.
  • err {Error|null}.

Writes the given data to the UART device asynchronously.

Example

var serial = uart.openSync({device: '/dev/ttyUSB0'});
serial.write('Hello?', function(err) {
  if (err) {
    // Do something.
  }
  serial.closeSync();
});

uartport.writeSync(data)

• data {string}.

Writes the given data to the UART device synchronously.

Example

var serial = uart.openSync({device: '/dev/ttyUSB0'});
serial.writeSync('Hello?');
serial.closeSync();

uartport.close([callback])

• callback {Function}.
  • err {Error|null)}.

Closes the UART device asynchronously.

uartport.closeSync()

Closes the UART device synchronously.

Event: ‘data’

• callback {Function}
  • data {Buffer} A data from the sender.

Example

/* ... */
serial.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log('read result: ' + data.toString());
});