Try to fix serial ports listing (#1155)

esphome/__main__.py

@@ -12,24 +12,12 @@ from esphome.const import CONF_BAUD_RATE, CONF_BROKER, CONF_LOGGER, CONF_OTA, \
     CONF_PASSWORD, CONF_PORT, CONF_ESPHOME, CONF_PLATFORMIO_OPTIONS
 from esphome.core import CORE, EsphomeError, coroutine, coroutine_with_priority
 from esphome.helpers import color, indent
-from esphome.util import run_external_command, run_external_process, safe_print, list_yaml_files
+from esphome.util import run_external_command, run_external_process, safe_print, list_yaml_files, \
+    get_serial_ports
 
 _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def get_serial_ports():
-    # from https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/serial/tools/list_ports.py
-    from serial.tools.list_ports import comports
-    result = []
-    for port, desc, info in comports(include_links=True):
-        if not port:
-            continue
-        if "VID:PID" in info:
-            result.append((port, desc))
-    result.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
-    return result
-
-
 def choose_prompt(options):
     if not options:
         raise EsphomeError("Found no valid options for upload/logging, please make sure relevant "
@@ -60,8 +48,8 @@ def choose_prompt(options):
 
 def choose_upload_log_host(default, check_default, show_ota, show_mqtt, show_api):
     options = []
-    for res, desc in get_serial_ports():
+    for port in get_serial_ports():
-        options.append((f"{res} ({desc})", res))
+        options.append((f"{port.path} ({port.description})", port.path))
     if (show_ota and 'ota' in CORE.config) or (show_api and 'api' in CORE.config):
         options.append((f"Over The Air ({CORE.address})", CORE.address))
         if default == 'OTA':

esphome/dashboard/dashboard.py

@@ -26,11 +26,10 @@ import tornado.web
 import tornado.websocket
 
 from esphome import const, util
-from esphome.__main__ import get_serial_ports
 from esphome.helpers import mkdir_p, get_bool_env, run_system_command
 from esphome.storage_json import EsphomeStorageJSON, StorageJSON, \
     esphome_storage_path, ext_storage_path, trash_storage_path
-from esphome.util import shlex_quote
+from esphome.util import shlex_quote, get_serial_ports
 
 # pylint: disable=unused-import, wrong-import-order
 from typing import Optional  # noqa
@@ -313,14 +312,15 @@ class SerialPortRequestHandler(BaseHandler):
     def get(self):
         ports = get_serial_ports()
         data = []
-        for port, desc in ports:
+        for port in ports:
-            if port == '/dev/ttyAMA0':
+            desc = port.description
+            if port.path == '/dev/ttyAMA0':
                 desc = 'UART pins on GPIO header'
             split_desc = desc.split(' - ')
             if len(split_desc) == 2 and split_desc[0] == split_desc[1]:
                 # Some serial ports repeat their values
                 desc = split_desc[0]
-            data.append({'port': port, 'desc': desc})
+            data.append({'port': port.path, 'desc': desc})
         data.append({'port': 'OTA', 'desc': 'Over-The-Air'})
         data.sort(key=lambda x: x['port'], reverse=True)
         self.write(json.dumps(data))

esphome/util.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Union
+from typing import Union, List
 
 import collections
 import io
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from esphome import const
 
@@ -256,3 +257,34 @@ def filter_yaml_files(files):
     files = [f for f in files if os.path.basename(f) != 'secrets.yaml']
     files = [f for f in files if not os.path.basename(f).startswith('.')]
     return files
+
+
+class SerialPort:
+    def __init__(self, path: str, description: str):
+        self.path = path
+        self.description = description
+
+
+# from https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/serial/tools/list_ports.py
+def get_serial_ports() -> List[SerialPort]:
+    from serial.tools.list_ports import comports
+    result = []
+    for port, desc, info in comports(include_links=True):
+        if not port:
+            continue
+        if "VID:PID" in info:
+            result.append(SerialPort(path=port, description=desc))
+    # Also add objects in /dev/serial/by-id/
+    # ref: https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/1346
+
+    by_id_path = Path('/dev/serial/by-id')
+    if sys.platform.lower().startswith('linux') and by_id_path.exists():
+        from serial.tools.list_ports_linux import SysFS
+
+        for path in by_id_path.glob('*'):
+            device = SysFS(path)
+            if device.subsystem == 'platform':
+                result.append(SerialPort(path=str(path), description=info[1]))
+
+    result.sort(key=lambda x: x.path)
+    return result