serial library for Pi

[petert1]

SoftwareSerial.h is used in the Tutorial for the USB + Serial RGB Backlight Character LCD Backpack.
Is there an equivalent library ( and /or ) tutorial which can be used with the Raspberry Pi?
What would you suggest as the easiest way to get my Pi sending data to the LCD?

Thanks

[adafruit_support_mike]

This tutorial will tell you how to get I2C running on a RasPi: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-ras ... guring-i2c

Then this one will show you how to talk to the LCD: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16x2 ... y-pi/usage

[petert1]

Mike,
Thanks for those suggestions. The LCD I have is not the USB + Serial RGB Backlight Character LCD Backpack - that is just where I found the SoftwareSerial.h.
My LCD is not for I2C, rather, it expects a serial connection ( rx and gnd). Parallax #27977.
What I'm looking for is an easy way to configure the Pi UART Serial bus and a library for sending the messages to the LCD

Peter

[adafruit_support_mike]

Ah.. I was thinking of the other LCD backpack.

The RasPi's UART shows up as /dev/ttyAMA0, and by default is used as the machine's serial console. To suspend the console and free the UART for communication with other devices, you need to use some boot-time options.

This page describes that process, starting about halfway down the page: http://elinux.org/RPi_Serial_Connection

[petert1]

Mike,
That is just the information I needed.
Also , I found pyserial for Python which is similar to SoftwareSerial.h for the Arduino.
http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html

Currently writing successfully to the Parallax LCD.

Thanks