How to add a USB Serial Adapter to VERA2

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Hi all,

For a few days now, I’m struggling to get a USB Serial Adapter to show up at the VERA2 UI under “Mios Developers” => “Serial Port Configuration”. ???
I am using Vera2 and UI4.

Using Putty I executed "lsusb
root@MiOS_20145:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0856:ac01 B&B Electronics uLinks USOTL4 RS422/485 Adapter
root@MiOS_20145:~#

As far as I can understand from this result Vera has discovered my Adapter.

I also executed dmesg | grep “FTDI”
root@MiOS_20145:~# dmesg | grep “FTDI”
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI SIO
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI 8U232AM Compatible
usbserial.c: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible converter detected
usbserial.c: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI FT232BM Compatible
ftdi_sio.c: v1.3.5:USB FTDI Serial Converters Driver
root@MiOS_20145:~#

From these results I understand that my Adapter is connected to ttyUSB0

However, my Adapter does not showup under “Mios Developers” => “Serial Port Configuration”.

My Adapter is the only USB device currently connected to VERA USB0, and this is the first time ever something is connected to Vera’s USB.

The “Mios Developers” => “Serial Port Configuration” shows an IPSerial for Port 10001 which I am using for other purposes, but not my Adapter.

How can I get my adapter to show up in Vera’s UI.
Any help would be very appreciated.

Regards.

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What’s in your serproxy.ports file?

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,1471.msg5512.html#msg5512

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guessed,

Thanks for your reply.

From the link you supplied (which I already read over and over) I have searched for the serproxy.ports file.

Code: [Select]
root@HomeControl:/tmp/log/cmh# cat /etc/cmh/serproxy.ports
vendor:067b product:2303
? Last Edit: August 04, 2009, 07:48:02 pm by guessed ?

Using WinSCP and examining /etc/cmh/ , I cannot find the serproxy.ports.

Any idea how I can create this file?

By the way, why was my post replaced into the Programming Section as, to my opinion, adding a adapter has nothing to do with programming?

Regards

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You can create it with any (plain) text editor.

5

Thanks,

Using WinSCP I created a textfile, named: “serproxy.ports” in the directory: “/etc/modules.d”.

Content:
vendor:0856 product:ac01

The data was taken from:
root@MiOS_20145:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0856:ac01 B&B Electronics uLinks USOTL4 RS422/485 Adapter
root@MiOS_20145:~#

After rebooting Vera, still no luck.

Perhaps other ideas?

Thanks.

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It doesn’t belong in [tt]/etc/modules.d[/tt]

Read a few lines up, where you quoted me, for the location. 8)

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guessed,

Yes, :smiley: , finally, it works!!!

Thanks for your support, although you made me feel like a detective. ;D

Thanks again and …

Regards.