Writing a Python/C program to get UART data in your code
While Minicom might be fine for real-time communication with a device, if you need something to continuously talk to your device or react when a certain message is received, you'll want to put together an application for that. Python of course has great libraries for serial communication, which makes it a good choice for managing or automating communication between two devices.
Getting ready
The previous recipe gets you set up for serial communication by freeing up the serial port bindings and virtual console for incoming serial communication. If you have finished the first recipe, you can use the same configuration to try out communication with serial.
How to do it...
Python can work with serial ...
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