SharkRF openSPOT3 - USB Serial Console

USBserialconsole
TheopenSPOT3showsupasaUSBserialport(COMport)whenpluggedintoacomputer.Youcanreachthe
serialconsolebyopeningthisUSBserialportwithserialterminalsoftwarelikePuTTY,RealTerm,TeraTerm,
minicometc.TofindoutwhichisyouropenSPOT3'sserialportdevicepath(COMportnumber),lookatthe
devicelistofyourcomputer(inyouroperatingsystem'scontrolpanelforexample).Youcanusethefollowing
settingsforopeningtheserialport,butintheoryanyconfigurationwouldwork:baudrate115200,8databits,no
paritybits,1stopbit.
TheopenSPOT3'sserialconsoledoesnotrequiredriversonmodernoperatingsystems,asitshowsupasa
standardUSBACMdevicewithourofficialUSBID0x1fc9:0x8125.YoucandownloadadriverforWindowsXP,7
andVistahere.SomeusersreportedthatWindows8.1alsorequiresthisdriver,butitcanonlybeinstalledifthe
signeddriverrequirementisturnedoff.
Theserialconsolecanbeusedtochangebasicnetworksettings,reboottheopenSPOT3,switchittobootloader
mode,seeit'sdebuglog,resetthewebinterfacepasswordandmanymore.Thelistofavailablecommandscan
bequeriedwiththehelpcommand.
USBserialconsole
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