README

Device-Firmata

Device::Firmata - A Perl implementation of the Firmata protocol.

This module allows a computer running Perl to connect to Firmata devices (Arduinos and compatible, including ESP8266), either via serial I/O (RS-232, USB, etc.) or TCP/IP (LAN, WiFi). 

Protocol details can be found at https://github.com/firmata/protocol.


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

  
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Device::Firmata
    
You will find a web presentation on "Controlling an Arduino with Perl" 
at file://presentation/index.html.

The folder "example" holds more than 15 Perl example applications for 
various Firmata IO implementations incl. I2C and 1-Wire.

You can also look for information at:

    AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
        http://annocpan.org/dist/Device-Firmata

    Search meta::cpan
        https://metacpan.org/release/Device-Firmata

    RT, CPAN's request tracker
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Device-Firmata

    CPAN Ratings
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Device-Firmata


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 Aki Mimoto
Copyright (C) 2012 Norbert Truchsess
Copyright (C) 2016 Jens B.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.