Using serial with the FTDI cable causes the library to hang when a card is read #58
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Hello! While im sure there must be a way to do this, I bought the PN532 breakout and an FTDI cable thinking setup would be a breeze. Two days of tinkering later, im pulling my hair (in part due to my inexperience).
The LibNFC part of the official guide is outdated, and I understand why it is. But it seems like this may be the only way to "easily" use the FTDI cable (looking at that project's issue log, im not the only one with issues, and LibNFC seems like it has been abandoned). I was not able to configure it on my raspberry pi to use ttyUSB0, and it no longer supports autoscan. The version used in the guide seems to no longer be compatible with newer OS versions.
To my untrained eye, I think it may not be all too difficult to adapt the simpletest example to talk over the FTDI serial port. My hope is that this would be relatively easy and thus added as an official example without burden, as well as in documentation so that people buying this reader would find it easier than I did.