Questions tagged [ftdi]

Future Technology Devices International, commonly known by its acronym FTDI, is a semiconductor device company, specializing in Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology and converters from USB to other (UART, I²C, SPI etc.) communication buses.

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Android devices doesn't recognize attached hardware with FTDI chip

I've made an Android application that communicates with custom made hardware over FTDI 230X chip. The application works fine and communicate with attached device. But on some phones/tablets it doesn't work in sense that Android device does not…
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Serial Port Hangs

I have a usb to serial FTDI adaptor connected to my mac. I am able to use the command: screen /dev/tty.usbserial-A601L9OC This opens a serial terminal for the port and everything works fine. But when I try to send characters to the serial port via…
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Using FTDI D2XX drivers with Python from Raspberry Pi on raspbian soft-float

We have a USB device controlled by FTDI's D2XX drivers. It's currently controlled from a Windows machine via a Python interface and as a fun project I tried moving the control to a Raspberry Pi (about 1/10th the cost of a PC, not including the OS…
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Arduino doesn't detect FTDI serial on Mac Catalina 10.15.4

I can see FTDI module in system report But in arduino it doesn't show up I read that iOS comes with USBSerial.kext which can handle this but I don't see it working for me. I have tried installing FTDI driver and I can see .kext in…
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9 bit serial with ARM Linux and FTDI UART, a quest to fix the FTDI drivers

I'm trying to get 9bit serial working for communication with a device that requires the 9th bit set high in order to receive (yea, I know...). I'm using a pretty standard USB-RS232 dongle with an FTDI chip in it and it appears to be using the FTDI…
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Implementing I2C slave with FT201XB via USB

I've been trying to test a FT201XQ USB-I2C breakout board: UMFT201XB-01, so I can connect it to a master device such as an Arduino and sniff what that device is sending through I2C. To see the output of the slave device I have successfully…
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Bit-banging with USB to Serial UART

I just bought the UM232R USB Serial UART Development Module which uses a FT232RL chip to emulate a UART-like interface over USB. I actually just bought this complicated module for a very simple purpose: to trigger a very simple LED circuit that I…
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unable to use "d2xx" library for FTDI chips in python

Downloaded the d2xx library from this site Works fine on Windows7 with python2.6 List of extracted files. In Ubuntu 10.10(Maverick Meerkat) I cannot proceed further. how to install the files so that I can import d2xx library $make Makefile:1:…
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Can FTDI device port number be known without opening the connection?

I want to list FTDI ports with their description, here is my program: #include #include "ftd2xx.h" int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { DWORD numDevs = 0, i = 0; FT_DEVICE_LIST_INFO_NODE *ftDevList = NULL; FT_STATUS…
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Esp32cam Failed to connect to ESP32: Timed out waiting for packet header

I've just recieved my very first esp32cam (AI THINKER) today and I was excited to test it, but I'm unable to upload any code to it. I'm always getting the following error: Failed to connect to ESP32: Timed out waiting for packet header So, the FTDI…
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macOS X Mojave 10.14 Beta FTDI USB Serial Driver

I just installed macOS Mojave 10.14 Beta and when i connect an Arduino to the USB port, nothing appears in my Arduino IDE ports list. if i try ls /dev/tty.* i just see /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port connected. On macOS 10.13 everything was…
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FTDI implements standard CDC protocol?

Does FTDI implement the standard communications device class (CDC) USB protocol? I need to implement a host on the STM32 to connect the device to an FTDI serial chip. But searches on Google say that when using a library from ST there are problems.
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How can I get Linux device with FTDI D2XX driver API

I am using FTDI D2XX driver API to communicate with a FTDI device. It gives me some information about the device like locid, serialnumber, description but it is not enough. How can I get the device number (/dev/ttyUSBXX) or bus or port with this…
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pylibftdi missing libftdi libusb on Windows install

I am trying to write a python bit-banging application to communicate with a FT232H eeprom using pylibftdi (over serial port). I have installed the FT232H .dll using the installer provided by ftdichip (the default .dll install location is…
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How to detect FTDI driver in system

I have an app that requires FTDI D2XX Direct Drivers drivers to be installed in system. Now I am creating an installation script using Inno Setup. How can I get an information whether FTDI drivers are installed in system (Windows). Is there any path…
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