DeviceOpen

DeviceOpen["devclass"] opens a connection to the first available device in the class specified by "devclass".

DeviceOpen["devclass",spec] opens a connection to the particular device defined by spec.

DeviceOpen[device] opens a connection to an existing device specified by a DeviceObject.

Examples

Open a serial port connection:

dev = DeviceOpen["Serial", "/dev/ttyUSB0"]

This is special case, that allows to stream an image from web-camera akin to CurrentImage[]. For example:

dev = DeviceOpen["Camera"];
dev["FrameRate"] = 60;

Then stream it to an image:

Refresh[DeviceRead[dev]//Colorize, 1/30.0]

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