[CentOS] Serial Port or USB monitoring / Logging

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 00:52 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >Do any of you have any perl scripts that do this?  I would like to look
> >at your logic either for a serial or usb port.
> 
> Based on an upcoming but unlikely need I may have, I thought I would give
> google a look, first hit lays some ideas out pretty easily:
> 
> http://aplawrence.com/BGarlock/logger.html
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-SerialPort/SerialPort.pm
> 
> What exactly do you need to do?
> 

Thanks for your response....

I found this script on aplawrence as well, but my first attempts failed
in making it work.  I decided to take another look at it after your
note, and was successful getting Device::SerialPort to installed using a
different computer.  I had to change :

#$PORT      = "/dev/ttyD015";          # port to watch
$PORT      = "/dev/ttyS0";          # port to watch

but I was able to make it execute.

I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report
with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually
incorporate the data in a patient medical record.  I intend to do the
same thing for a blood analyzer.

Now that I have Tony Lawrence's script executing I can take the next
step of connecting the urine analyzer to to the serial port to do some
testing.

Thanks for prompting me to look at the logger script again, I had given
up on it.

Greg