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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

OSX UART serial terminal




In OSX, turn on the terminal, plug in your FTDI USB-serial dongle, you should see a new usbserial device created under /dev.  Use "screen" to start the session, remember to state the baudrate at the end of the command:
$ screen /dev/cu.usbserial-FTVLVQ6M 115200
To detach:
Ctrl-a d
To re-attach:
$ screen -r
To kill the screen:
Ctrl-a k
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