NAME

Robotics::Fialab::Serial - (Internal module) Software-to-Serial interface for Fialab Serial or USB-Serial on Unix/Win32 for controlling robotics hardware

VERSION

Version 0.23

SYNOPSIS

Serial and USB-Serial software interface support for Robotics::Fialab. In Perl Robotics environment, the Robotics modules use this module to send hardware commands through a Serial port to the physical hardware.

This module is only useful in the framework of other Robotics modules. It probably should not be used on it's own.

EXPORT

FUNCTIONS

new

FUNCTIONS

probe

Probe the local machine for a Serial port to communicate with as a software-hardware interface.

Finds the port only, does not find hardware (look at hardware modules for that part).

Returns:

Hash, with key:value as follows: key="Fialab-Microsia", value="not-started:name:token" or "ok:name:token" where name is the application-usable alias to use for new()'s "unit" parameter, and token is an internal reference for low level software.

open

(Internal function) Do not call

Open communication to Serial software<->hardware interface

AUTHOR

Jonathan Cline, <jcline at ieee.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-robotics at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Robotics. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Robotics::Fialab::Serial

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Robotics

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Robotics

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Robotics

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Robotics/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Jonathan Cline.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.