kivy-android-serial

Android serial port driver (ACM) for Kivy based on usb-serial-for-android.

Installing

1. In buildozer.spec add termios.so to the whitelist
2. Include pyserial and android in requirements
3. Add intent-filter.xml
4. Add device_filter.xml to your android res/xml/ folder
5. Add <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.usb.host" /> to your AndroidManifest.xml

# (list) python-for-android whitelist
android.p4a_whitelist = lib-dynload/termios.so

# (list) Application requirements
# comma seperated e.g. requirements = sqlite3,kivy
requirements = pyserial,android

# (str) XML file to include as an intent filters in <activity> tag
android.manifest.intent_filters = intent-filter.xml 
 

Usage

Use like you would use serial.Serial.

from kvserial.driver import CdcAcmSerialPort

s = CdcAcmSerialPort('/dev/ttyACM0')
s.write("Hello\n")
# etc...

A non-blocking implementation for use with twisted is included.

from kvserial.twisted  import SerialPort

s = SerialPort(protocol,'/dev/ttyACM0',reactor)

# handle in protocol...