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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How to add functionality to MFC application

I have a sample code I'm using to watch for USB events using the FTDI D2XX library. The sample is C++ code, and uses MFC which I've never touched before. I'm trying to get this executable where I can make it into a .dll (which is a whole other can…
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USing FTD2xx driver on Windows and Android

Does anyone know what the issue would be with my code below? I'm trying to create an Android application that can access an external sensor and display the data that is being read from the device. I have managed to get back an array of bytes, but…
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Using serial for android library

I'm trying to implement this https://github.com/mik3y/usb-serial-for-android/blob/master/UsbSerialExamples/src/com/hoho/android/usbserial/examples/SerialConsoleActivity.java in my project but there is something wrong with this sample. Line 121: …
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How to use FTD2xx library on QtCreator (with MSVC2012 compiler)

I have trouble in making an application which communicates FTDI devices via D2xx driver.There is some example project for Visual Studio in ftdi's website. But there isn't for QtCreator. I chose QtCreator as c++ IDE because my application needs Qt…
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Correct way to close a serial port QT

I'm interfacing to a hardware serial device using QT, I've based my application roughly around the Terminal example, but as the communication needs to be very synchronous the serial handler is living in another thread. The connection is via a…
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pySerial setDTR not working well

At first I'm using PYthon 2.7.5, pySerial in last version for Python 2.7.x, Windows 7 (64) and FTDIFT232RL (so not real RS232 Serial port). Just for the tests I created this code: class cProduction: g_comPort_name = "COM1" g_comPort = 0 …
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Pylibftdi library not working (serial mode, UM232H)

First of all I am quite new with both python and Linux. That said I am trying to communicate to an FTDI UM232H chip using the pylibftdi library. I am running my scripts on Linux Ubuntu 12.04. I installed the library that I got…
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Not understanding keyboard values from V2DIP FTDI board

I am working on V2DIP FTDI board. After flashing keyboard firmwares such as USBHOSTHidKDB, I'm getting keyboard values as follows: 0000040000000000 for 'a' key 0000050000000000 for 'b' key and so on. Does anybody know what these values are? Please…
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SWIG has no output directory when installing ftdi

I'm trying to use ftdi in python on OSX. I thought I installed everything correctly (including dependencies and all), but when i try to import ftdi in my code it says File "simple.py", line 11, in import ftdi ImportError: No module…
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FTDI chip supported Android device

I am working on an Android programming. I decide to use FTDI chip for usb serial converter. My android device kernel version: 3.0.8 and android version: 4.0.3 onyo nanopad 7 tablet. I research FTDI chip and read…
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How can I install FTDI Drivers at the same time as my software in InstallShield 2012?

I have created a basic MSI in InstallShield 2012. Currently, the MSI only installs the actual software itself. I would like to be able to install the drivers for the Hardware as well. I have seen other install packages do this, I just do not know…
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Reliably detecting presence of external hardware

I have to support an increasing range of hardware that's considered, at least by today's standards, legacy. What nearly all of these devices have in common is an FTDI FT232 UART chip, which acts as a Serial-to-USB converter. Windows sees it as a…
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FTDI chip detection issue

I'm trying to do some transactions over serial ftdi interface to an ARM based board. On windows i'm able to detect it but when from virtualbox i'm unable to detect the same. When i connect the same board to a linux sever box, it gets detected and…
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Getting started with libftdi

I want to build a program that communicate with ftdi device from beagleboard XM EzSDK 6.0 board. FTDI provides pre-compiled D2XX library for arm Linux Kernel version 2.6.32. But EzSDK 6.0 uses Linux Kernel 3.3.7. So i downloaded opensource libftdi…
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Send string with non-ascii characters out serial port c#

So, I'm attempting to communicate with a device over a serialport object in C#. The device is looking for a mask value to be sent to it as a part of a command string. For example, one of the strings will be something like "SETMASK:{}", where {} is…
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