portapack as USB serial terminal

[Waycco]

Description of the feature you're suggesting.

For future development.

It would be nice if there was a small basic terminal serial monitor that could listen, display and interact with some other devices which are connected to the usb port.

Like a simple Arduino IDE type serial monitor with touchscreen keyboard. This allows you to write for example AT commands and read/write data with other devices attached to hackrf/portapack.

Anything else?

No response

[zxkmm]

if you meant as master device then it's probably need really much work and im not capable to do that (also not sure if it's possible).
if you meant as slave device, then i'l writing it already (to help debug mayhem-cli app)

[Waycco]

The idea was that you could connect a microcontroller (arduino or esp) to hackrf usb port and then you could give text commands to the microcontroller using portapack keyboard and lcd display and also receive serial text from the microcontroller...Portapack would act as portable terminal..

[Waycco]

Yes that's better. It would allow you to use external devices to do things like forwars messages and stuff. This would make portapack more like a 'jack of all trades'. Like a tool that can do anything. There is a lot of small IOT devices that can be controlled and monitored via serial. That is why I thought that portapack as USB serial terminal would be a handy addition.

[htotoo]

With USB only it is unlikely, but with the H4's gpio port with a microcontroller, it is possible. (hardest part is the keyboard implementation i think for the standalone app)