[PD] comport port numbers :: bash trick

[Alexandre Quessy]

Hi,
Those who are using Arduinos, Wiring and such interface could tell me
if this little trick work for you too. This bash shell command on
linux gives the material hardware port numbers that comport uses for
USB serial communication in Pd.

i=0; for f in `ls /dev/tty[US]*`; do echo $i $f; i=$(( $i + 1 )); done

On my Debian laptop, it gives this:

0 /dev/ttyS0
1 /dev/ttyS1
2 /dev/ttyS10
3 /dev/ttyS11
4 /dev/ttyS12
5 /dev/ttyS13
6 /dev/ttyS14
7 /dev/ttyS15
8 /dev/ttyS16
9 /dev/ttyS17
10 /dev/ttyS18
11 /dev/ttyS19
12 /dev/ttyS2
13 /dev/ttyS20
14 /dev/ttyS21
15 /dev/ttyS22
16 /dev/ttyS23
17 /dev/ttyS24
18 /dev/ttyS25
19 /dev/ttyS26
20 /dev/ttyS27
21 /dev/ttyS28
22 /dev/ttyS29
23 /dev/ttyS3
24 /dev/ttyS30
25 /dev/ttyS31
26 /dev/ttyS32
27 /dev/ttyS33
28 /dev/ttyS34
29 /dev/ttyS35
30 /dev/ttyS36
31 /dev/ttyS37
32 /dev/ttyS38
33 /dev/ttyS39
34 /dev/ttyS4
35 /dev/ttyS40
36 /dev/ttyS41
37 /dev/ttyS42
38 /dev/ttyS43
39 /dev/ttyS44
40 /dev/ttyS45
41 /dev/ttyS46
42 /dev/ttyS47
43 /dev/ttyS5
44 /dev/ttyS6
45 /dev/ttyS7
46 /dev/ttyS8
47 /dev/ttyS9
48 /dev/ttyUSB1

My Arduino is at port number 48. So, I just need to initialize comport
like this:

[comport 48 9600]

And then the communication is possible. I wrote this note int the
dataflow wiki :
http://wiki.dataflow.ws/comport

So, I only want to know if this bash command work on your setup too.

Cheers,
--
Alexandre Quessy
http://alexandre.quessy.net/