Mini Thermal Printer

[hermesneto]

Hi,

I´m new with these IoT things, I´m sorry if I ask something stuped.
I have purchased a Mini Thermal Printer from Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/products/597) and want to know if is possible to make it work with Windows IoT Core and Raspberry Pi 2, since it uses the TTL (tx rx) from Raspberry Pi.

Sorry my bad english.

[markrad_msft]

Hi,
There have been a number of questions regarding the serial pins on the Raspberry Pi and if they will be available to applications. As I understand it, currently these pins are being dedicated to Kernel debugging ergo cannot be used by applications. Rather than make assumptions about the availability of these pins in the RTM version, I will contact the product group and find out. I will let you know what I found.

[hermesneto]

I appreciate your reply, thank you

[GerritV]

To add a bit of further information, the serial port is also used for WinDBG interface (debugging without Visual Studio)

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/Windbg.htm

The used of bcdedit might give a clue on making it available or at least disconnecting from its default use (which might be kernel debug per markrad_msft)

Your alternate/interim option could be to use a usb serial adapter, there was an earlier forum discussion about those.


Gerrit