[Feature request] Serial Communication

[tobozo]

In an modified earlier release of esp8266_deauther I played with phonegap/cordova/cordovaduino to forward every HTTP message through the serial connection (deauther plugged to the android OTG) and also send orders to the ESP without using the web interface.

It wasn't working well, communications were slow and buggy, going further required some Java skills I don't have so I gave up.

But there is still a need to be able to communicate with the deauther while the WiFi connection is busy deauthing. While any client (App or browser) will be disconnected as soon as the deauthing starts, the deauther is still spamming logs through the serial and accepting orders.

Is it worth speculating on the stability of https://github.com/mik3y/usb-serial-for-android (I think Cordovaduino uses an old version of it) and asking for such a feature addition?

Great initiative anyway, very much appreciated!

[ExploiTR]

Good idea. Though it will take much efforts and time, I will try it (I don't know how much time it will take, but not less than a year because of my studies 🔢 ). 👍

[ExploiTR]

I tried my first step with the library you suggested. But, it has been deprecated and the APIs are limited, I'm having problem to do read/write.

I trying to migrate with this one.

[tobozo]

nice finding! And the UsbSerial project seems to handle CH34x while the other had only limited support with CP210x.

Also interesting to note the support for a SPI interface 🤔

[ExploiTR]

Yes, but so sad, the same problem here 👎

I'm having problem to do read/write.

I don't know where the bug exists, but I'm getting a totally unreadable string from output. Mostly, a byte encoding-decoding related problem.

But, I don't think it's unfixable. I've to try hard tho.

In parralell , I'll try to go with the lib and thinking to go with your : serial-only-modified-library

Though, till now, I only tried setting up the board uploading *.bins, It's my first try to use Arduino with your lib~. Let's see what happens..