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As a C++ serial port library, I like http://wjwwood.io/serial/

In python, pyserial is very good.

I'm not aware of any other ROS nodes which convert a serial port directly into ROS messages. This seems like a bad idea, because it breaks the abstraction that ROS is trying to provide.

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