Hi,
For Windows, ComPortMan does a great job of managing comm port
assignments. Available at <http://www.uwe-sieber.de/comportman_e.html>
Cheers,
david
On 29/11/2014 9:42 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
kb8tq-wyfad0z3...@public.gmane.org said:
The “new chip ID, new com port†thing is pretty typical for the FTDI
drivers. If you plug the old LTE back in there’s a good chance it will come
back up as COMM 5. Usually they are pretty good about only adding ports for
devices they have not seen before.
Most/some of the FTDI usb to serial chips have a serial number. I don't know
how it works on Windows, but on Linux, you can use the udev rules to make an
alias so your software can refer to something with a filename like /dev/LITE
rather than /dev/ttyUSB2. It works no matter which slot you plug it into
and/or still works after it gets unplugged and reconnected.
lsusb -v will show things like:
idVendor 0x0403 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
idProduct 0x6001 FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
bcdDevice 6.00
iManufacturer 1 FTDI
iProduct 2 FT232R USB UART
iSerial 3 A102GX1N
/var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog will contain something like:
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.791230] usb 3-3: Product: FT232R USB UART
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.791235] usb 3-3: Manufacturer: FTDI
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.791240] usb 3-3: SerialNumber: A102GX1N
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.799337] ftdi_sio 3-3:1.0: FTDI USB
Serial Device converter detected
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.799447] usb 3-3: Detected FT232RL
....
Nov 28 15:12:00 deb kernel: [1392082.805436] usb 3-3: FTDI USB Serial Device
converter now attached to ttyUSB3
This is what I put in /etc/udev/rules.d/35-hgm.rules
# LTE LITE Eval Board
KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ATTRS{serial}=="A102GX1N", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="LITE"
I use the same approach with my Rigol scope and Prologic USB-GPIB.
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