SerialPort: writable property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
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The writable read-only property of the SerialPort interface returns a WritableStream for sending data to the device connected to the port. Chunks written to this stream must be instances of ArrayBuffer, TypedArray, or DataView. This property is non-null as long as the port is open and has not encountered a fatal error.

Value

A WritableStream

Examples

The following example shows how to write a string to a port. A TextEncoder converts the string to a Uint8Array before transmission.

js
const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const writer = port.writable.getWriter();
await writer.write(encoder.encode("PING"));
writer.releaseLock();

Specifications

Specification
Web Serial API
# dom-serialport-writable

Browser compatibility

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