The title says it all, I am not knowledgable enough about coding to make a program that does this, has anyonemade one, or know a source for one

Hi tech20,

Try "minicom" -- see our Servo Squirter tutorial page for some more details about how to set it up properly (scroll down to "Serial Port Communications"). Hope that helps!

Mike

tech20,

you may want to try to read directly from the UART:

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 -parity -cstopb

then you can read and write to it using cat, echo, tee, etc. or write your own program. Minicom is a good idea, but you only need it to configure the device, which is what the above line attempts to do too.

Everyone,

I posted a serial reader in perl. It should work for linux as well as mac

thank you for the help, i'll try these out and see if they work out well for what i need