beagleterm / beagle-term

Beagle Term for Serial Communication

Beagle Term for Serial Communication

Install

Now you can download directly from Chrome Web Store.

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beagle-term/gkdofhllgfohlddimiiildbgoggdpoea

Dev

• cd app and run npm install to get dependencies.
• Load /app as unpacked extension.
• Saved changes and refreshing the app on chrome://extension.
  • Running the grunt command will use jshint to check for any bugs in the project's code.

This application ..

• is a kind of Chrome packaged app.
• Supports RS232 (Serial)
• Even supports VT100
• No browser plugins required!
• Demo Video

License

• BSD license.

Community

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beagle-term's Issues

What functionality are we getting from hterm?

I see that we're using hterm_all.js; however, the only time we're referencing it is when we're loading the window. What functionality is this library giving us?

set default bitrate 115200 by default

normally, 115200 is used by default

Parity and flow control

I'd love the ability to modify these settings..had to turn them to off for a connection last night and had to abandon my Chromebook to get it working. Great product!

Feature Request: Output screen to a local text file. Please upvote if you like.

Thanks for this great beagle-term app, and also for making it open source!

I would like to make a feature request to have the application output to a local plain-text file on the chromebook.

This would help because then I could go back and search through parts of the terminal output for troubleshooting.

For those others who use this great application, please indicate in the comments if you'd like to have the aforementioned feature as well.

Again, Thank You very much for your efforts! It's much appreciated!

• Shannon VanWagner
  humans-enabled

Release new version to chrome app store

We should release next version. 1.7 on 15 September.

• Remove polymer - @RandomlyKnighted

• Remove 'Beta' from version.

• Repacking and test - @sunglim

• Update project description on CWS - @sunglim

• Add options for data bit, parity, stop bit, and flow control - @RandomlyKnighted

  we should show thanks list (+RandomlyKnighted)

Paste into beagle-term?

Is it possible to paste into beagle-term? If so, how? Ctrl+v, middle click, right click, etc do not work for me.

If not, consider this a feature request :)

Second connection doesn't work

• Cannot close serial port.

Environment. Chrome stable M33. Windows

1. Open beagle and connect to serial
2. close beagle
3. open beagle again and connect to same port

but after spending few minutes, Maybe Chrome close port automatically.

Need a context menu

To provide additional function, we need a menu.
But probably modifying top UI is risky. for instance, new tool bar menu could break the whole layout.

providing a menu with a context menu might be the best choice.

See Chrome.Context API. and Spark project's context menu.

show error message when selected serial port is being used

show error message when selected serial port is being used
선택한 시리얼포트가 이미 다른프로그램에 의해 열려있을경우 에러메시지 출력

Display Issues

Hi there,
I am using Beagle Term on a Chromebook with a USB-2-Serial adapter. Beagle Term sees the adapter and is able to connect to my serial devices but I receive poor output on my display. There is an extra space and indentation to where the previous line finished which makes text hard to read. It's like there are too many line feed's and no carriage return. I have tried a Cisco router and a Dell switch with the same results. Is there anything we
can do to fix this. Thanks for the help!
Jordan

Modify window.app.create function to use 'bound' property

About 5 month ago,
'bound' property is added, and it seems that chrome team want ppl to use bound property

https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11358003

require to close port when close Beagleterm

Dear,

when close Beagleterm, Beagleterm doesn't seems to close serial port.

비글텀 종료할때 포트를 안닫아줘서 새로 실행할때 포트오픈이 안되는것같습니다..

25버전에서 발생되네요.. 일단 새로빌드한 바이너리를 집에가서 공유해드릴께요.. 지금은 회사라 안되고..

beagle term gives blank screen on connect to hp chromebook

awesome app
but currently beagleterm doesn't launch correctly (connect window is absent)
using keyspan and hp chromebook running latest version of chrome

Break sequence?

Is it possible to issue a break sequence from beagle term? Obviously, no break key on most chromebooks.

Question: What is the project license?

In the package.json you have project's license listed as BSD and then in the bower.json file you have the project's license listed as MIT. Which one is the correct license?

Note: If the correct license is BSD then can you be more specific as to which BSD license it is? I've included below the list of approved BSD licenses that are accepted by both NPM and Bower:

Full Name of License	License Identifer
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	BSD-2-Clause
BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License	BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
BSD 2-clause NetBSD License	BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	BSD-3-Clause
BSD 3-clause Clear License	BSD-3-Clause-Clear
BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear License	BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-License
BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear License 2014	BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-License-2014
BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear Warranty	BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-Warranty
BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License	BSD-4-Clause
BSD Protection License	BSD-Protection
BSD Source Code Attribution	BSD-Source-Code
BSD with attribution	BSD-3-Clause-Attribution
BSD Zero Clause License	0BSD
BSD-4-Clause (University of California-Specific)	BSD-4-Clause-UC

"minimum_chrome_version": "25"

Version 25 works on Windows too -)

Support Font selection

Can there be some way to select a default font/the font to use?

Clean up

As Robert said, there are no circular dependencies between hterm, nassh and libdot.
So we need to clean up unnecessary old files, and update to latest libraries.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/chromium-hterm/libdot/chromium-hterm/PyDa50rrDC8/sEpv_gS9ipQJ

Share beagle term screen with ChromeCast

if possible.

Question: What is the Connection ID used for?

I've noticed that each time a new connection is made the connection Id is incremented by one. What's the purpose of keeping up with this?

Switch from Polymer to Bootstrap

As discussed in #49, it was agreed that Polymer is a bit too large of a framework to use with BeagleTerm. With that in mind it would be good to replace Polymer with something simpler like Bootstrap.

I have already begun work on this and hope to have a PR this weekend. I've already started working on this but still need to test what I've done so far. What has to be done in order to to publish a new version of the project? Is there anything I need to do to the project before I submit my PR?

Release version 1.3

asap
1.3 version fixes the new serial api issue.

remove beagleterm-chromebook brach.

we can make diffrence by UserAgent.
no need to make seperate special version.

List of supported USB->Serial adapters for Chromebooks?

I've been looking for a list of supported adapters. I have a USB to serial adapter I've been using for years. It seems that it isn't supported because Beagle-Term says it can't find a serial device. I'll buy a new one if I need to, but I want to make sure I get one that will work. I'd really like to be able to use a USB to Serial adapter on a stock Chromebook without having to put it in developer mode.

I'm on an Acer C7 Chromebook. Here are the details:

Version 27.0.1453.116
Platform 3912.101.0 (Official Build) stable-channel parrot
Firmware Google_Parrot.2685.37.0

Your device is up to date.

WebKit

537.36 (@152168)

V8

3.17.6.15

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS i686 3912.101.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36

Command Line

/opt/google/chrome/chrome --allow-webui-compositing --audio-buffer-size=2048 --device-management-url=https://m.google.com/devicemanagement/data/api --disable-seccomp-sandbox --enable-encrypted-media --enable-gpu-sandbox --enable-logging --enable-partial-swap --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=5 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=12 --log-level=1 --login-manager --login-profile=user --max-unused-resource-memory-usage-percentage=5 --no-protector --ui-enable-partial-swap --ui-enable-per-tile-painting --ui-enable-threaded-compositing --ui-prioritize-in-gpu-process --ui-max-frames-pending=1 --use-cras --user-data-dir=/home/chronos --register-pepper-plugins=/opt/google/chrome/pepper/libnetflixhelper.so#Netflix Helper#Helper plugin for the Netflix application#1.0.3;application/x-ppapi-netflixhelper,/opt/google/chrome/pepper/libnetflixplugin2.so#Netflix#Netflix 2.1.2#2.1.2;application/x-ppapi-netflix2 --ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome/pepper/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.7.700.225-r4 --ppapi-flash-args=enable_hw_video_decode=1,enable_trace_to_console=0 --vmodule=screen_locker=1,webui_screen_locker=1,network_portal_detector=1 --first-boot --flag-switches-begin --enable-sync-favicons --enable-full-history-sync --sync-keystore-encryption --flag-switches-end

Build Date

Friday, June 14, 2013

Should BeagleTerm become a paid app?

Please vote this poll,
https://plus.google.com/112990119750252895642/posts/VeixDNEiqLE

Question: Why Polymer?

I created my own terminal app and have been able to replicate the Beagle Term design using nothing more than Bootstrap and jQuery. This project was nothing more than a test to see if the design could be replicated without Polymer. I've never used Polymer before so I've been reading up on it and I'm not sure I understand why it was chosen. Could you explain what made you decide to use it in this project?

Unable to get BeagleTerm to work with PL2303

I have a PL2303 USB-to-serial dongle that works fine with my MacBook pro (i.e., I can "screen /dev/tty.PL2303-*" in OS X and connect to whatever the USB-to-serial dongle is connected to).

However, when I plug the USB into my Chromebook and fire up BeagleTerm, BT identifies /dev/ttyUSB0 as a valid device, asks for the baud rate (I choose the highest -- 115200, although I've tried all the baud speeds, too), and lets me click on "CONNECT".

I see:

Welcome to Beagle Term version BETA.
Device found /dev/ttyUSB0 connection Id 1.

But then it is unresponsive. Hitting enter to get a login prompt from the network switch I'm plugged in to, for example, yields nothing.

Is there something I need to do in ChromeOS to enable the use of BT with my USB-to-serial dongle properly?

Thank you!

Needs default icons

We need icon,

128_128
16_16
32_32
48_48

Those icon should represent the serial communication.

Tab key no longer working

Just noticed that tab auto completion when consoled into various network gear seems to have stopped working on my chromebook. I remember there being a recent Chrome OS update - I can't be certain that this stopped working at the same time, but it seems likely-ish. Let me know if there are any specific details I can provide.

port option when starting uneditable

Hi

Started Beagle on Windows 7 latest chrome and when it opened it asked for port and bitrate. I was unable to supply a port to connect and so accepting left me with a non working terminal.

Support to select port name

Support to select port name

포트이름을 선택하는 다이어리가 필요함

Fix JSHint and JSCSRC error

https://travis-ci.org/beagleterm/beagle-term/jobs/159502150

Copying text on ChromeOS doesn't work

I have an HP Chromebook 11 running 36.0.1985.49 (Official Build 274672) beta.

I successfully connected to a serial device (arduino nano) and selected the text for copying. An overlay indicated that the text had been copied to the system clipboard, but I was unable to paste the text into the Text application (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbokpmkimbfghdkjmjhdgbg).

Tested with a Chromebook

Tested it with a Samsung Chromebook (ARM) and a Aten USB-Seriel adapter (UC-232A) and managed to connect to a HP switch. It didn't work perfectly and only connected at 9600 baud, no matter what I set in the app. Some lines where out of order and a bit garbled.

I don't know if it is due to the app or hardware combo...

/O

Make JSHint automatically via CI

Since Gruntfile.js already checks JSHint. So runing grunt task via CI is enough.

Removing USB dongle causes full Chrome restart

I don't know if this is a BeagleTerm or ChromeOS issue, but I found that if I have a BeagleTerm window open / connected to my USB-to-serial dongle, and if I physically remove the USB dongle, the entire Chrome browser (on my Chromebook) will reset, and I'll get the "Chrome didn't shut down properly; click here to restore all tabs" button.

I have ChromeOS 37.0.2062.120 (64 bit) on and HP Chromebook.
Platform 5978.98.0 (official build) platform falco
Firmware Google_Falco.4389.78.0

I have BeagleTerm v1.3.

cursor in wrong place

It looks like the same bug as
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=386414

Doesn't work from m33

Misspelled serial in project description

As shown in the image below the word "serial" is incorrectly spelled as "seiral".

Leading between text

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this great app. It has been useful to me and to some of my colleagues.

I'm using the Chrome OS version of the app on a Samsung Chromebook and it works well except for one minor bug. For some reason the application leaves a big empty space between lines. Below is a picture with an example.

I saw this bug mentioned in the issue thread called Display Issues by ShannonVanWagner but I wanted to make this an individual issue thread. Hopefully you can fix this to make an awesome application even more superb! Keep doing the good work!

Write test code

For now we are not able to test without actual device.

We need to implement a kind of fake serial device with javascript code.

Provide 'Logging'

We sometimes need to save to a log file.

Probably we need a UI work as well.

Massive refactoring. to use Polymer & Dart.

Dart & Polymer is really fancy. and it's pretty worth to use them.

Thanks to @ussuri. I have a little knowledge about it.

save previous bitrate

save previous bitrate

Originally hterm save the users's preference on Chrome.sync.

for users's convinience, we should implement this function.

There could be two way.

1. Implement Hterm's dialog
2. implement our own dialog including save & load users's preference.

Get focus 'connect' button when Beagle term starts.

Get focus to 'connect' button when Beagle term starts.

to use without mouse control.

Chromebook Compatibility

Hi there,
Beagle Term will install on a Samsung ARM based Chromebook with the noted display issues.

Beagle Term will not install on the Samsung Series 5 Atom based Chromebook with an error of "This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled."
Jordan

doesn't re-connected after the device reboot.

device turn on -> beagle term connect -> device turn off -> device turn on.

doesn't re-connected after the device reboot.
chromium issue though.

Migrate to webapp

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

Please Report issues!

Yesterday I removed BeagleTerm for Chrome OS version.
You are still able to use BeagleTerm general version.
If you meet any issues, please report it!

Can not send commands

I am using an HP Chromebook with a Belkin usb-serial adapter. Problem is that I can't get any kind of screen output from my equipment. Beagle term sees the usb port and I select the proper rate, it connects but will not take any keys. I can reboot the equipment and I start getting text across the screen then when the equip is fully up I can then issue commands. I do not want to have to reboot equipment every time I need to console in. Is there a fix for this?