[PyQt] Basic serial question

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:21:55AM +1000, Phil wrote:
> Thank you for reading this.
>
> Using Eric, I'm trying to take text from an edit box and then transmit it
> via a serial port. The following console code proves that the serial data is
> being received correctly.
>
> import serial
>
> ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0',9600)
> ser.write(b'Fred\n')
>
> To create an Eric GUI, the way I understand a QT C++ example, is that I have
> to import QSerialPort. The problem is that the Eric error message says that
> there isn't a QSerialPort or QtSerialPort module. I have installed
> python3-pyqt5.qtserialport.

You can import it like this:

from PyQt5.QtSerialPort import QSerialPort

However it is not a GUI, it is just a Qt implementation of serial ports.
It does more or less the same thing as pyserial, so there is no sense in
using them together.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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