Fingerprint UART serial configuration

Hardware Compatibility
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Hello guys, i’m new here. i have a fingerprint UART reader and i wanna communicate with it through serial port.

To set the serial port configuration i used this command:

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs8 -cstopb -ixon raw speed 19200

To send command to the device:

perl -e’print “\xF5\x01\x00\x01\x03\x00\x03\xF5”'>/dev/ttyUSB0

To retrieve the data from the device and put it into .txt file:

cat </dev/ttyUSB0 > output.txt

problem: i got the incorrect format for the output which is this =>> . i’ve attahced the photo along with this thread( the output in the image quite blur, is actually /F5/‘box’/00/00/00/00/‘box’/F5)

p/s: its HEX input and output. whenever i get 01,02.03 or other than 00,then it will appear as boxes. please help me experts!

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Are those (hex) escaped extended ASCII control characters ?

If so … 00 to 32 aren’t printable

See here:
http://www.ascii-code.com/

depending on what you want to do with the output, you could possibly pipe the output through hexdump (?)

cat </dev/ttyUSB0 | hexdump -c > output.txt

Open gedit and try typing

Right_Ctrl+Shift+u then 02

and you’ll see what I mean.

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I tried the code u gave me but nothing happened. The device output this kinda of format data, is there any way to change the format without altering the original data?