pySerial VS serial-proxy-c

Code your REST endpoint to use something like pySerial to send the message to your device

If the Tach is the older style I think this would be a great first project. If you need to emulate CAN it’s going to be a rather more complex project. python CPU/RAM utilizationpython Serial communication library

I haven't, but I would try a Linux box with two serial ports, connect both things to it so it's literally man in the middle. The PySerial module for Python, and it has an example bi-directional Serial to TCP/IP relay including a threaded serial listener, you might be able to hack that into a Serial <--> Serial relay with custom logging/interception fairly quickly.

https://github.com/bodiroga/rfc2217-gateway https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/examples/rfc2217_server.py

Connecting to the Russound device is only possible by TCP, you can make use of a TCP to Serial gateway such as tcp_serial_redirect

Look in source https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/serial/serialcli.py

# Download pyserial to ~/ cd ~/ wget https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/archive/refs/tags/v3.4.tar.gz -O pyserial-3.4.tar.gz # Create a temp dir to do the work in export tmp_dir=~/install_temp/ mkdir $tmp_dir cd $tmp_dir # Extract and install pyserial tar -xvf ~/pyserial*.tar.gz cd pyserial* python setup.py install --user # Clean-up cd ~/ rm $tmp_dir/ -Rf

The code that runs on the Raspberry Pi needs to listen for incoming data over the serial connection. Several libraries exist, we will choose the Python library pyserial.

Try pyserial

Thanks for all the tips everyone. I wasn't aware it would be so easy to monitor RS232 at the physical level. I'm going to make a first attempt with software using a serial proxy program (https://github.com/rkubik/serial-proxy-c) that will allow you to define additional virtual serial ports that you can read/write to independently, while it retains control of the physical port. I believe I can then insert an RPi or similar system in between the serial devices, use that serial proxy to expose both sides in a way I can monitor, and finally attach the program "socat" to each virtual writable port to bind the two real systems together over my intercepted serial cable.