# SerialPorts
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 21, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914 "2018-12-21T20:55:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@abuAnat](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abuAnat)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/1 "2018-12-21T20:55:46Z")
SerialPorts.jl doesn’t work with Julia version 1+. I need to control a laser device through a serial port. Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/2 "2018-12-21T21:14:22Z")
Have you tried [GitHub - JuliaIO/LibSerialPort.jl: Julia wrapper for the libserialport c library](https://github.com/andrewadare/LibSerialPort.jl) ?
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### Author:  [@mzaffalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mzaffalon)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/3 "2018-12-21T21:18:57Z")
Alternatively, if you are willing to use Julia, 0.6, SerialPorts.jl works.
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/4 "2018-12-21T21:30:29Z")
I’ve not used it myself, but it looks like SerialPorts.jl version v0.2.0 supports 1.0 — [https://github.com/JuliaIO/SerialPorts.jl/releases](https://github.com/JuliaIO/SerialPorts.jl/releases)
What trouble are you having with it?
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### Author:  [@tobias.knopp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobias.knopp)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/5 "2018-12-22T09:57:40Z")
> [@rdeits](#):
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> [GitHub - JuliaIO/LibSerialPort.jl: Julia wrapper for the libserialport c library](https://github.com/andrewadare/LibSerialPort.jl)
+1 for [GitHub - JuliaIO/LibSerialPort.jl: Julia wrapper for the libserialport c library](https://github.com/andrewadare/LibSerialPort.jl) I am using this on a variety of devices and had no issues so far. Advantage is that it does not require Python.
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### Author:  [@mzaffalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mzaffalon)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/6 "2019-01-16T14:59:06Z")
Sorry for the late reply. This is what I get on Julia 1.0.3:
```julia
(serial) pkg> st
Status `C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\private\serial\Project.toml`
(empty environment)
(serial) pkg> add SerialPorts
Updating registry at `C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\registries\General`
Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
Resolving package versions...
ERROR: Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package SerialPorts [5d0f9de7]:
SerialPorts [5d0f9de7] log:
├─possible versions are: [0.0.1-0.0.7, 0.1.0] or uninstalled
├─restricted to versions * by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions [0.0.1-0.0.7, 0.1.0]
└─restricted by julia compatibility requirements to versions: uninstalled — no versions left
(serial) pkg> st
Status `C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\private\serial\Project.toml`
(empty environment)
```
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### Author:  [@TPDS1993](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TPDS1993)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialports/18914/7 "2019-02-12T14:53:59Z")
I had that problem a while ago and opened an issue in SerialPorts.jl [here](https://github.com/JuliaIO/SerialPorts.jl/issues/29). The trich is to explicitly download the master branch with:
```julia
]add SerialPorts#master
```
It worked for me and I already tried in Windows and Linux OS’s.