[SailfishDevel] No QSerialPort

[Mikael Hermansson]

Actually support for QtSerialPort could be valid on non Jolla devices. For example 
if we get sailfishos going on BeagleBoard Black? or Android devices with USB OTG 
support...

But I can understand if Jolla does not prioritize this right now, but it should atleast 
be available as "extra repo" or in mer-core or something?

Regards

Mikael

On Tuesday 25 March 2014 09.09.15 Jonni Rainisto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope that you are aware that USB OTG is not supported, so you cannot
> attach USB serial devices to Jolla? Or are you building yourself a custom
> TOH with USB host support and plan to use i2c serial ports? In that case
> you can just compile QtSerialPort code yourself (I've tested that it
> compiles just fine inside the SDK) and bundle that inside your application.
> You might want to consider BT devices and using RFCOMM over that as that
> would be much simpler approach.
> 
> br, Jonni
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alejandro Exojo schreef op 2014-03-24 21:53:
> > El Sunday 23 March 2014, Wim de Vries escribió:
> >> So, it should be available in Sailfish.
> > 
> > No, is available inside Qt, not necessarily provided for Sailfish.
> 
> I thought Sailfish would include all modules of Qt....
> 
> >> Have to recheck the errors, but it looked like the libs and headers
> >> were
> >> not there (QtSerialPort/QtSerialPort no such file).
> > 
> > I already told you that you might consider copying the module to your
> > application and bundle it. Or see if Qt Serial port is packaged for
> > mer, and
> > ask for inclusion (or package if is not). Any Qt addon is a safe bet
> > since qt-
> > project has some serious commitment to ABI/API stability.
> 
> I did this on the notebook Qt<5.1 versions of my app. (even a
> boost-serial version before QSerial)
> But doing this with Sailfish is far more complex:
> it has to be available on the Mer VM and the Sailfish VM (and later
> Sailfish device).
> I am not experienced with VMs. The nice thing about using Qt is not
> having to worry about the implementation (and updates) of the modules.
> (The Sailfish (Target) manager is also not able to find the serialport
> module).
> I need all the time for porting to Sailfish, esp. C++GUI2Qml  ;-(
> So, support for this module is a must for my app.
> 
> > Or just explain what serial port you want to use and for what reason,
> > so
> > Sailors see the need to do the work themselves... and satisfy my
> > curiosity.
> > ;-)
> 
> aircraft navigation+more app:
> USB/serial device1:
> -external GPS
> USB/serial device2:
> -air press sensor (altitude)
> -humidity sensor
> -temp sensor
> No rocket science, works flawless on ubuntu notebook.
> 
> r
> wim
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