Blazor Client-side. Is it possible to access the Serial ports (COM) from browser?

Question

Hi there
Is it possible to communicate to a Serial ports of a client machine making use of Blazor Client?
If yes, any clue or links?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi, @Nikolay Renziglov ,

Blazor WebAssembly doesn't support to access local serial port on client. You will get the error below.

It's danger and illegal for accessing the serial port from client side. You could try another approach:

1. Write a Windows Service (I assume your machine runs Windows), configure it with necessary privileges. You will have to install something on the machine anyway. The service can be implemented in any language.
2. Add HTTP(S) server capabilities to it and choose communication protocol over HTTP. You could use JSON, Ajax, WebSockets, SignalR, etc.
   · Send data byte from serial port to /.
   · Recieve command byte from serve to serial port .
3. Build a web server to process the data with client.
4. Create a front page to display your data and control it.

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Answer 2

You can in in Chrome since 89. Maybe chromium based but I haven't looked. See https://web.dev/serial/. You'll need to write js adaptors.