Zerial is a utility that allows to develop/test hardware and interact with it from our general software in binary mode. Zerial was built with Avalonia and Net6 and published as a self-contained application; therefore, it doesn't need dotnet to be installed. Due to that, it has a size of around 100 MB. But unlike of Electron and Python applications, it utilizes resources carefully. Zerial has the following main advantages:
COM devices)RS232 working configurationSupport multiple platforms where Net6 could be installed (Avalonia is a Cross-Platform WPF)
To make you app work with serial-devices run following code prior to running wissance-zerial
sudo snap set system experimental.hotplug=truesudo systemctl restart snapd.servicesudo snap connect wissance-zerial:serial-portThank you for your report. Information you provided will help us investigate further.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
Versions of Kubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) don’t include snap by default, but snap can be installed from the command line as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
To install wissance-zerial, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install wissance-zerial
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