Quick code to talk to COM or TCPIP hardware devices

com-port.ipynb

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    "import serial\n",
    "from time import sleep"
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    "ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 115200)"
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    "header = chr(2)\n",
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      "C\tRPT\t12321\r\n",
      "\n"
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   "source": [
    "ser.write(header + 'RPT' + terminator)\n",
    "sleep(0.1)\n",
    "print ser.read_all()"
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    "ser.close()"
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tcpip.ipynb