Detecting USB Port or devices in Pi

In this article, we will learn how to detect USB ports or devices in Pi automatically. So, you do not need to search from the command box. This simple line of code helps a lot while working on projects. Anyway, let’s start.

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Manual way:

There is a manual way to detect the port from ‘sudo‘ command. Write ‘ls -m /dev/tty*‘ then the cmd pad will give you something like this:

From this, you can identify your port manually. How? Simply plug the device and write the command, and then unplug the device and do the same as before. From the difference, you can identify the device. But doing this each time while you are writing a code in Py, will be painful. So?

There is a way to find the port automatically and let the code find the exact port you need to detect.

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Automated way:

When wringing a code, just keep this part to detect the port.

import serial
import time
import serial.tools.list_ports
GSM_port_name = 'CP2102'
port_range = 20

def find_port(cnt_p,name):
    port=''
    print('Finding port for GSM')
    while(cnt_p):
        cnt_p-=1
        p=serial.tools.list_ports.comports()
        n=len(p)
        for i in range(0,n):
            des=p[i][1]
            if name in des:
                port = p[i][0]
                cnt_p=0
                print('Found Port for GSM:'+str(port))
                break
            else:
                print('.\n')
        time.sleep(0.5)
    return port

Now call this ‘find_port()’ later on your main code.

p = find_port(port_range,GSM_port_name)
ser = serial.Serial(p, 9600, timeout = 1)#open USB serial

I had a GSM hat device to connect with the Pi through the USB port. And with this code, I can detect that port very easily.

Test Result:

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