#Qt5 serial port serial#
It is not so simple to maintain such a project like this without proper CI integration because we experienced many regressions on one platform when we tried to fix issues or add new features.Īs you may already know, it is not simple to test the serial port projects automatically. As the CI integration has happened lately, the project is now also covered for build tests, so we cannot end up in situations like having regressions as before. The main short term plan is to get the integration right in terms of Jira and Gerrit to move out of the Playground scope. Community people can contribute with new modules under the same umbrella with the companies behind the Qt Project. It is also a very good prove for the Qt Project that the idea actually works. This is a really great and exciting news for us. This has been approved by Lars, the Qt Project Chief Maintainer, in the aforementioned thread. :-)Īs you can read in the topic of this post, QtSerialPort makes it for Qt 5.1. I am not claiming it is now perfect, but it looks much better than it used to be. Likely, it was also good for us because we were able to clean up the remaining uncertain bits of the API. Unfortunately, the Qt Project did not have enough capacity for this integration. You can read the platforms and environment supported in that threa. This had been proposed on the development mailing list last year. The initial plan was to make QtSerialPort available as an add-on module for Qt 5.0.
#Qt5 serial port driver#
There were also important features added like support for gadget serial driver on Linux and so forth. It was necessary for me to get the project tested on my pandaboard where the UI was not available. As I am a geek, I instantly wrote a command line based example to enumerate the devices.
The API was also a bit too low-level, and I began to send patchs to refactor the API to be more Qt style'ish. That is how the library kept rolling, getting new features and bugfixes. Having a Continous Integration (CI) in place for the time.Īs time time had flied, I had more and more feature requests and own changes for those to implement. That is nice, and helped to guarantee the quality of the work even without Least one review, but many times two, or sometimes even more. Our work has been achieved by using the Qt instance By that time, it was more or less possible to use QtSerialPort with Qt4. 1-2 weeks), I got the first changes into the Qt Project, following the Gerrit workflow. I decided to give the project a go and make support for Qt4. This is understandable as Qt5 was not realeased for the time, so we were unable to take the risks of the moving target.
The library was supporting only Qt5 back then, and my project was based on Qt4. Around the time, when I requested the QtAudio3D project into the Playground area of the Qt Project, there was a russian person, Denis, who initiated a community project into Playground in his own pastime to make a great developer experience for serial port based projects across platforms. There was a discussion on the development mailing list to figure out the rules for handling this. The Qt Project established a nice opportunity for contributors to start a new project, or move an existing to the Playground area. Then, a chinese person began to fix certain issues, but still: the design had been carried for long from the old ages. Unfortunately, its API looked weird and the project had been abandoned for a while without people contributing to it. There has been an old library around for a while, called QExtSerialPort. It would have been phantastic to communicate with the modem on my Windows, or Linux host. As I had been about to make a touch friendly UI with QML, I thought it would have been nice to have a Qt solution. :-)Ībout a year ago, I was looking for a library for my project to handle the serial port communication with the modems I needed. I am sure many of you recall the time when soldering the pins and cable manually to get it right for the embedded boards. It is mostly used for communicating with modems, sending control commands and so forth where the universal serial bus is not necessary. The serial port technology is quite old, but still in active use today.
I would like to introduce you to a project I have been working on lately under the Qt Project umbrella.
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