SerialPort has no method 'list'

Question

SerialPort has no method 'list'

I have a very simple script to just the available serial ports and then connect to one, write a char and put the response on the console. CODE HERE

In my scripts directory I did:

#npm install serialport
#npm list
 /home/uminded/Programming/nodeJS/test
 └─┬ serialport@1.0.8
   ├── async@0.1.18
     etc...
#node test.js
   spits out entire serialport.js to command line then...
 has no method 'list'
 at Object.<anonymous> (/home/uminded/Programming/nodeJS/test/test.js:4:12)
 at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
 at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
 at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
 at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
 at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)
 at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)

The serialport.js script does have an export for SerialPort.list why can it not find it?

Also what program do you guys use for writing and debugging node related js?

javascript
node.js
serial-port
node-serialport

Answer 1

list is a property of the serialport module, and not of serialport.SerialPort. Replace the first lines like this:

var serialport = require("serialport");
var SerialPort = serialport.SerialPort;
var util = require("util"), repl = require("repl");

serialport.list(function (err, ports) {
  ports.forEach(function(port) {
    console.log(port.comName);
    console.log(port.pnpId);
    console.log(port.manufacturer);
  });
});