Is it possible to open a local serial device from Perspective?

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I want to have a perspective project for configuring some devices over serial.

I want the user to be able to:

  • open the perspective webpage on their computer
  • plug a serial device into their computer
  • See it in the perspective session and be able to configure it somehow and send data back and forth to the device.

I tried using system.serial within a Perspective project and opening the correct COM port I got from Device Manager on Windows but I was not able to get data from the serial device.

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You need to use Vision for this. Perspective scripting always runs on the Gateway, and Perspective browser sessions do not have access to host hardware.

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Sounds good, thank you for the response!