Posts for: #Serial

Things I Made: Slow terminal emulation

Things I Made: Slow terminal emulation

Ah, the good old days: when computers were chunky, the Internet was a dream of the future, and you could make a cup of coffee while waiting for a screenful of text to display. If you miss that as much as I do, let me introduce you to Slow, a low bit rate emulator that lets you travel back in time to those simpler days.

Slow lets you run commands with a reduced output character rate. For example, we can ask for the date at speeds of 50, 75, and 110 bps:

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A passwordless serial console for your Raspberry Pi

legendre on #raspbian asked:

How can i config rasp lite to open a shell on the serial uart on boot? Params are 1200-8-N-1 Dont want login running, just straight to sh

In this article, we’ll walk through one way of implementing this configuration.

Activate the serial port

Raspberry Pi OS automatically starts a getty on the serial port if one is available. You should see an agetty process associated with your serial port when you run ps -ef. For example:

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