USBsearch

by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - USB Interface
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 2.8, Creation date: 2015-12-01, Last change: 2025-08-18

searches for specific USB serial devices on a MAC

Description

On OSX/Mac all connected USB devices are detected by the command:
[~,out]=system('ioreg -p IOUSB')
Nevertheless, only if a device driver is installed, the device could be found in the directory:
dir '/dev/tty*'
Therefor, this function uses an array consisting of Device name, Driver-Name, Driver source.
Afterwards, a serial port object is defined by com1=serial('devicedriver')
Afterwards, this serial object is used to open or close a fh=fopen(com1); fh=fclose(com1)

Currently the following devices are supported:
- NDI Host USB Converter
- Pololu Mini Maestro 12-Channel USB Servo Controller
- Keyspan USA-19H
- Arduino Mega

See Also: USBhelp , USBpololu

Example Illustration

missing image of USBsearch()

Syntax

USBsearch([])

Examples

just type
USBsearch: % Searches for a couple of useful USB serial devices



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