Has anyone gotten QSerialPort to work with a USB-to-serial adapter?

[Stokestack]

Hi all. I need to communicate with external devices serially through USB. I have a USB-to-serial adapter (Prolific chipset, similar to FTDI devices), but the Qt serial-enumeration example doesn't show it. It only shows Bluetooth serial ports (under Mac OS 10.15.5).

I know the device is working, because I can send stuff through it with a terminal. Anybody know why the Qt serial classes don't see it, or how to get it working?

Thanks!

[aha_1980]

Hi @Stokestack,

which Qt version are you using?

Note that even if you can't enumerate the device, you might still be able to use it with QtSerialPort if you know the name.

Regards

[gde23]

I don't know how it is on macs, but on Linux e.g. if you wire up e.g. an USB serial device like an arduino or something it will show up under /dev/ttyACM0 instead of /dev/tty# so the device path differs in between "normal serial ports" and USB ones.

[Stokestack]

Thanks for the replies, guys!

It actually works now (Qt 5.15.0). I had heard the Apple driver was janky, so I always unload it before using my serial program (called Serial)... but Serial has its own driver. So the rest of the system was left without one.

After a shambolic run-in with a defective driver from Prolific (DO NOT install Prolific's PL2303 driver; it will brick your Mac), the Apple driver was re-enabled and the Qt serial examples work fine.

[kuzulis]

JUST FOR INFO: I'm afraid that it is impossible to do a fixing anymore on an OSX OS from my side. Because I use now an AMD CPU.. )) So, maybe someone in future can fix a future bugs related to OSX..