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Any chance to use terminal for virtual COM port on msp432 launchpad on mac?

Stanislav Ossovskiy
Intellectual 930 points

Hello people! 

The idea is I am very happy to see CCS coming to mac. The only concern I have now is that under Windows, my MSP432 launchpad is seen by the OS as a couple of virtual COM ports, so I just write some code, open any terminal and can "talk" to my launchpad, or debug through the COM terminal. That is great, because I can send some commands, print debug data and much more. 

So is there an ability to do the same thing under Mac? So that I just could open terminal and talk to my launchpad? Perhaps there is some built-in COM port terminal in CCS? I don't know.. Just any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Stanislav Ossovskiy said:
    So is there an ability to do the same thing under Mac? So that I just could open terminal and talk to my launchpad?

    On MacOS, serial ports connected by USB are accessed by /dev/tty.usb* devices.

    After you plugin the Launchpad to a Mac, you can look for its serial ports by opening the Terminal and typing: ls /dev/tty.*
    Then you can use that device name as the Port name when opening the serial port terminal.

    The "screen" command appears to be a quick and easy way to read the serial port on MacOS, like this:

    screen /dev/tty.[yourSerialPortName] [yourBaudRate]

    For example: screen /dev/tty.usbserialXYZ 9600

    Although I haven't used any, I am sure there are other serial port terminal programs for MacOS,which you can probably find by searching the web.

    Hope this helps!

     

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 930 points
    Thank you AartiG!
    I also found out an app that is called Serial - this is a great terminal which works with virtually anything.
  • 0 in reply to Stanislav Ossovskiy
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Stanislav Ossovskiy said:
    I also found out an app that is called Serial - this is a great terminal which works with virtually anything.

    That's great!

    CCS also has a built-in Terminal view which you can open by going to menu View->Other->Terminal, and then configure it as a serial terminal.

    I just tried it out on Mac and it seems to work well too.

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 930 points
    Great! Thank you heaps.