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CircuitGizmos

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Posted: 06:29pm 30 Oct 2018

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I play a little game every time I hook up a micromite to my PC. The game is called "I wonder what com port this connection will be today?" It isn't a very fun game.

So I put together a little executable that shows what com ports are available. I run this (it can run all the time) to see what ports are available on my machine:

Then I plug something in and voila! I now know the port of the thing I just plugged in:

Free to use. Might need to have Java installed to use it as I use a java library - please let me know.

Here is the executable:

2018-10-31_042829_AvailPorts.zip

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Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 07:01pm 30 Oct 2018

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Thanks a lot! Very useful!

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Posted: 08:02pm 30 Oct 2018

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I know the game well, but I look under "Ports" in Device Manager. I have it open all the time (because of the idiosyncrasies of this game).

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Grogster

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Posted: 09:02pm 30 Oct 2018

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Thanks. I play that game myself all the time too, and it is a pain in the arse.

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Posted: 09:27am 31 Oct 2018

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... which is why I have a shortcut to the DeviceManager on my desktop. This also shows the device type of the port which helps determine which is which

Edited by CaptainBoing 2018-11-01

Quazee137

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Posted: 10:26am 26 May 2019

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Here is a python3 I wrote today. It works on mint 18.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

''' This will let you know what serial port is
used when you plug your Micromite in.
It uses the Notify-send style.
I left the print statements just commented them
if you want to play/test.

'''

import pyudev
import notify2
from playsound import playsound

notify2.init('app name')
context = pyudev.Context()
monitor = pyudev.Monitor.from_netlink(context)
monitor.filter_by(subsystem='tty')

for device in iter(monitor.poll,'usb'):

if device.action == 'add':
''' print(device.get("DEVNAME"), " Connected")'''
n = notify2.Notification(device.get("DEVNAME"), 'Connected')
n.show()
playsound('TaDa.ogg')

if device.action == 'remove':
''' print(device.get("DEVNAME"), " Disconnected")'''
n = notify2.Notification(device.get("DEVNAME"), 'Disconnected')
n.show()
playsound('Voila.ogg')

I dont have a windows system to test on but it might work as is.
There is import os that I havent checked out so tools like this
can run on Linux, Mac and Windows without modding.

Having more FUN
Quazee137

here is the sound files I used
2019-05-26_222216_2sounds.zip

Edited by Quazee137 2019-05-27

Quazee137

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Posted: 04:35pm 26 May 2019

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more of me playing with python3

[CODE
#!/usr/bin/env python3

''' This will let you know what serial port
are in when using your Micromites.
a fun version LOL
'''
import os
import pyudev
import notify2
from playsound import playsound

notify2.init('app name')
context = pyudev.Context()
monitor = pyudev.Monitor.from_netlink(context)
monitor.filter_by(subsystem='tty')

for device in iter(monitor.poll,'usb'):

if device.action == 'add':
''' print(device.get("DEVNAME"), " Connected")'''
n = notify2.Notification(device.get("DEVNAME"), 'Connected')
n.show()

dn = (device.get("DEVNAME") + " is connected")
os.system( 'espeak -ven -k1 -s140 -g15 -p60 --punct="<characters>" "%s" 2>>/dev/null' % dn)
'''playsound('TaDa.ogg')'''

if device.action == 'remove':
''' print(device.get("DEVNAME"), " Disconnected")'''
n = notify2.Notification(device.get("DEVNAME"), 'Disconnected')
n.show()

dn = (device.get("DEVNAME") + " is disconnected")
os.system( 'espeak -ven -k1 -s150 -g15 -p60 --punct="<characters>" "%s" 2>>/dev/null' % dn)
'''playsound('Voila.ogg')'''

]

I left the print and sound for you to play with

Quazee137

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Posted: 01:23pm 28 May 2019

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Here is two videos showing the program

youtube one

youtube two

I was going to edit the last bits out but it's been 3 years
and 4 systems last I did any youtube. Forgot what editor I
used and the youtube editor just would not cut off the tail
end so I just let it go.

MicroBlocks

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Posted: 03:32pm 28 May 2019

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https://www.uwe-sieber.de/comportman_e.html :)

You can also assign a comport and that will be used when it is plugged in.
When you plug it into a different port or use a hub then you can do this multiple times to give a certain device always the same comport.

Normally a device that gets plugged into the same USB port wil get the same comport assigned to it.

The above program does that regardless of which USB port is used. Just define it in a small config file.

Edited by MicroBlocks 2019-05-30

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