Serial Port Not Working

[RickyTerzis]

Hi...i am a new user here. As per my knowledge you will not be able to copy your local version of the serialport.node binary to the Tessel 2 (unless your local machine is MIPS architecture. t2-cli makes a copy of your project, looks for binary modules and replaces them with pre-compiled binaries of the same package and version.

[rahulpandey]

Hello Ricky, you can compile the serialport for MIPS architecture using t2-compiler.
Once you have compiled it then you can ssh into your tessel and upload the file at the app location (/tmp/remote-scripts, if you are running using t2 run). After running do not run the code using t2 run, use t2 restart comand to load local copy of your node app.

[rwaldron]

t2-cli makes a copy of your project, looks for binary modules and replaces them with pre-compiled binaries of the same package and version.

Yep, this is correct!

[rwaldron]

you can compile the serialport for MIPS architecture using t2-compiler.Once you have compiled it then you can ssh into your tessel and upload the file at the app location (/tmp/remote-scripts, if you are running using t2 run). After running do not run the code using t2 run, use t2 restart comand to load local copy of your node app.

I definitely don't recommend that anyone do this for anything outside of serious troubleshooting. Regular development workflow shouldn't need to be concerned with manually compiling Node.js add-ons