roboRIO USB Serial

Technical Programming
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Hi All! Has any one had any success communicating over a USB serial port (ex /dev/ttyACM0) from within robot software? Any luck from Java?

Lots of my google searching reveals java’s built-in support isn’t the best, and lots of folks have made libraries for it. Not sure which would work though. Trying to see if anyone’s got a known-good direction I can pursue before shooting in the dark.

We could use the hardware RS232 port which is supported by WPIlib, but using USB allows us to have less wiring to do.

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WPILib should support up to 3 USB serial devices using kUSB, kUSB1, and kUSB2. I believe the NavX code uses this WPILib support.

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Bingo, thanks. I missed that. Will give it a shot in the next couple weeks.

http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/roborio/release/docs/java/edu/wpi/first/wpilibj/SerialPort.Port.html

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