RE: Library for easy serial communication with Arduino

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Lorenzo Donati
> Sent: donderdag 19 februari 2015 23:32
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Re: Library for easy serial communication with Arduino
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/02/2015 22:33, Thijs Schreijer wrote:
> >>
> >> Any hint and suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >
> > An old post, but you get the idea;
> http://superuser.com/questions/54723/any-free-application-to-redirect-
> serial-communication-to-tcp-ip
> >
> > Thijs
> >
> Thanks, it is interesting, but it doesn't seem to address my problem (am
> I missing something?).
> 
> I don't need TCP/IP connectivity, but simple interaction with existing
> COM ports (either real, i.e. connected to a real UART chip,  or virtual,
> like those created by the Arduino driver, which redirects the COM data
> over the USB connection to the Arduino board).
> 
> I'm not getting the point, unless you are suggesting to redirect COM
> links to TCP/IP and then using something like luasocket to perform
> serial communication indirectly (which seems a bit overkill).

That's what I meant. It's easier if you're used to sockets programming.

thijs