Terminal to experiment with some devices using some ports, like serial port.
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For some cases, we have to interact with a device.
Some uses RS-232 serial ports, other USBTMC, and many more.
Before we can write our application, it's handy to use a terminal to get familiar with the device command interface.
There are a lot of terminal application that can communicate via RS232 serial port. Maybe not so much for USB-TMC. Also, some old devices are very slow, and don't work if we send bytes at the normal predefined rate (they must be sent one by one with some ms interval).
There are currently no prebuilt packages available.
To build the project from source, see the BUILD documentation.
On some systems, like Linux Ubuntu, accessing serial ports is probably not allowed by default.
To access serial ports, you probably have to be in the dialout group.
To check what groups are currently affected to your login user:
groupsTo add you to the dialout group:
sudo adduser <user> dialoutCurrently, I only work on RS-232 serial port.