Cannot list virtual serial ports on Windows 10
golanguage opened this issue ยท 3 comments
com0com mirror Null-modem emulator is a long history kernel-mode virtual serial port driver for Windows.
But these port cannot be detected by this lib;
serialport-rs on ๎ main is ๐ฆ v4.3.1-alpha.0 via ๐ฆ v1.78.0
โฏ cargo run --example list_ports
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.56s
Running `target\debug\examples\list_ports.exe`
No ports found.
I can find its port using WIN10 system serial tool:
โฏ [System.IO.Ports.SerialPort]::getportnames()
CNCA0
CNCB0
Or anothere Rust serial port lib serial2.
serial2-rs on ๎ main is ๐ฆ v0.2.24 via ๐ฆ v1.78.0
โฏ cargo run --example list-ports
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.09s
Running `target\debug\examples\list-ports.exe`
Found 2 ports
CNCA0
CNCB0
Thank you for bringing up this issue! You are mentioning serial2 which uses different enumeration strategy on Windows. There is #84 in our PR backlog since a while, which switches to the same strategy and it looks like this could resolve your issue as well.
I would like to integrate it with with a slight change as prototyped in https://github.com/sirhcel/serialport-rs/tree/missing-modem-ports (as of 0720d5a). Could you give this branch a spin? Will it make the null-modem ports you are looking for getting listed? And what about regular serial ports: do they show up as before and as you would expect them to?
seem it's a great job.
In fact, there is not a real serial port on the PC, all 4 ports are virtual.
serialport-rs on ๎ missing-modem-ports is ๐ฆ v4.3.1-alpha.0 via ๐ฆ v1.78.0
โฏ cargo run --example list_ports
Compiling serialport v4.3.1-alpha.0 (C:\proj\rust\serialport-rs)
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6.10s
Running `target\debug\examples\list_ports.exe`
Found 4 ports:
COM3
Type: Unknown
COM4
Type: Unknown
CNCA0
Type: Unknown
CNCB0
Type: Unknown
Thank you for bringing up this issue! You are mentioning serial2 which uses different enumeration strategy on Windows. There is #84 in our PR backlog since a while, which switches to the same strategy and it looks like this could resolve your issue as well.
I would like to integrate it with with a slight change as prototyped in https://github.com/sirhcel/serialport-rs/tree/missing-modem-ports (as of 0720d5a). Could you give this branch a spin? Will it make the null-modem ports you are looking for getting listed? And what about regular serial ports: do they show up as before and as you would expect them to?