mcp2200ctl - MCP2200 USB-to-UART serial converter control program.

mcp2200ctl

mcp2200ctl is a command-line program which allows controlling additional features found in MCP2200 USB-to-UART serial converter (http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/MCP2200).

mcp2200ctl has the following features:

RX/TX led mode control.
RX/TX/RTS/CTS invert control.
EEPROM read/write.
GPIO read/write.
GPIO direction and default value control.
Hardware flow control.
USB suspend and configure state indication pin control.
Ability to set USB manufacturer and product strings.
Ability to set custom vendor and product IDs.

mcp2200gui

mcp2200gui is a GTK 3 based graphical program with the same purpose as mcp2200ctl.

mcp2200ctl usage

List all detected MCP2200 devices:

mcp2200ctl list

  1, "Microchip Technology Inc.", "MCP2200 USB Serial Port Emulator", "0000988086", "/dev/hidraw4"

Get current configuration:

mcp2200ctl configure

Default baud rate: 9600
GPIO directions: ioiooioo
GPIO default values: 11000111
GPIO values: 01000111
RX LED (GPIO pin 6): blink
TX LED (GPIO pin 7): blink
Blink speed: fast
Invert RX/TX/RTS/CTS: off
USB suspend pin (GPIO pin 0): off
USB configuration pin (GPIO pin 1): on
Hardware flow control RTS/CTS: off

Get current GPIO values:

mcp2200ctl get

GPIO values: 01000111

Get current manufacturer, product and serial strings:

mcp2200ctl describe

Manufacturer: Microchip Technology Inc.
Product: MCP2200 USB Serial Port Emulator
Serial: 0000988086

Get current EEPROM value at address 0x01:

mcp2200ctl get-eeprom --address=01

EEPROM value: 12

Building from source

Compiler

Some of C++17 features are required. Compilation is currently only tested on the following compilers:

gcc 9.3
gcc 10.2
clang 10.0
clang 11.0

Build dependencies

CMake 3.13 or newer (https://cmake.org).

Dependencies

HIDAPI 0.7 or newer (http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi).
Boost 1.67 or newer (http://www.boost.org).
Used boost libraries:
- Program Options.
- Test.
- Filesystem.
Additional graphical application dependencies:
- GTK 3.21 or newer (http://www.gtk.org/).
- libudev 231 or newer (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/).
- jsoncpp 1.9.4 or newer (https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp).

On Debian, and on Debian based Linux distributions, the following command can be used to get all of the build dependencies:

apt-get install cmake pkg-config libhidapi-dev libgtk-3-dev libudev-dev libjsoncpp-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev

Building

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
make install

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