Use Firefox or Chrome as interface?

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Hi,

I like working with JavaScript to build user interfaces, and I was wondering if/how I could use a web browser to communicate with an Arduino project.

Thanks for the discussion!

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hmm.. maybe node is an option: GitHub - serialport/node-serialport: Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!
and could be combined with webkit

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that should work, although to require node-serialport, it might need some work to build an app with the gyp bindings.

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Web browsers are shielded from serial ports so you can't, not with some custom plug-ins that breach the security. But if you run a web server on arduino, yes, you can have a web interface. I was looking for web browsers that will fetch web pages from serial ports a while back and found nothing worth trying.