Eli,

Thanks. That validates my initial assessment.

Still, I find the API overly cumbersome in trying to do this.  I basically
have to get a separate *ftdi_device_list* for each context, then discard
all the other devices and only keep the one I want to assign to that
context.  There should be a way to only get the ftdi_device_list only once
and then use the devices off that list with the multiple contexts.  I hope
I am explaining my concern clearly.

Thanks again

Ales


On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:33 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <
[email protected]> wrote:

> That sounds correct, from my experience with the Open Lighting
> Architecture ftdi driver you need a separate context for each port (I
> modified it to support a 4-port single FTDI device), so devices would
> definitely need their individual context.
>
> HTH,
> Eli
>
> 2016-06-01 18:50 GMT+03:00 Ales Fiala <[email protected]>:
>
>> I am trying to understand how to open and use multiple FTDI devices in
>> the same program.
>>
>> I am using *ftdi_usb_find_all()* to enumerate the devices and then
>> *ftdi_usb_open_dev()* to open each one and identify it. Afterwards I
>> close each device. I do this part with just one ftdi_context.
>>
>> Now that I found all the devices I want to open each selected device and
>> keep it open for reading and writing. I notice that *ftdi_context*
>> contains the following:
>>
>>    - libusb_device_handle
>>    - readbuffer
>>    - eeprom
>>
>> All this makes me believe that I need a separate *ftdi_context* for each
>> device that I want to access.  Am I on the right track?
>>
>> Using the *ftdi_device_list* that I found above I want to create a new
>> context for each device and open it.
>> I tried doing
>>
>> ftdi_new();
>> ftdi_usb_open_dev();
>>
>> for each device using the old device list.  But I get a SIGSEGV somewhere
>> in the depths of usb_open() in libusb. I am thinking it is because I used a
>> device list created with one context and now am trying to open the same
>> device using a different context.
>>
>> So how do I accomplish what I want?  Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ales Fiala
>>
>>
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