Force Vista plugin to use softlink port and ignore port from HomeSeer config screen

[mitchmitchell1616]

Mark,

I am running HS3 on Linux and I have udev rules that create a softlink "/dev/ttyAD2USB" whenever it sees the AD2USB device plugged in. I want to use this link so that I don't have problems with the /dev/ttyUSB device changing from /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB1 which sometimes happens when my homeseer system reboots.

Unfortunately the softlinks do not display in the list of potential com ports on the manage plugins configuration screen so I cannot select /dev/ttyAD2USB as the com port for the plugin to use. Is there a way to force the plugin to use that port (perhaps an ini file entry) and not the port shown on the plugin management page?

Thanks!

Mitch

[zwolfpack]

Maybe try making the softlink name start with "ttyUSB"? Probably could safely use ttyUSB9 as that should be out of range of anything the system would ever create.

[mitchmitchell1616]

I can try that, but a lot of other tty devices show up but no softlinks. I'd suspect they are looking for serial ports specifically rather than at device names.

[mnsandler]

I can try that, but a lot of other tty devices show up but no softlinks. I'd suspect they are looking for serial ports specifically rather than at device names.

Mitch,
did you get this working?

[mitchmitchell1616]

Yes I did Mark -- apparently they are indeed looking at device name format to use them -- I made a softlink ttyUSBAD2 in the udev rules and it showed up and works fine.

Thanks!

Mitch

[mnsandler]

Yes I did Mark -- apparently they are indeed looking at device name format to use them -- I made a softlink ttyUSBAD2 in the udev rules and it showed up and works fine.

Thanks!

Mitch

Thanks for reporting back and glad you got it working