Ta. The prevalent RS232<=>USB chipset around these parts seems to be an FTDI. I'll look around.
On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 4:19:32 PM UTC+13 vince wrote: > I was hoping to avoid USB<=>RS232 converters, as I understood they were >> problematic (in the past) and would add another thing-to-go-wrong. I have >> one other old device to monitor and it too has only an RS232 interface. >> Thought I'd be clever and get a low power box with two RS232 ports. >> > > FWIW, i've been running a VP2 with serial datalogger and a serial2usb > dongle for something like 10 years now. I started with a Shuttle mini-pc > that had serial ports and switched to a little arm box that just has USB. > Never had an issue with the serial2usb from day one. Works great. > > You basically just want to make sure you get the right chipset in the > adaptor. Anything with the PL2303 definitely works. Both mine have that > chipset, and they were picked up years apart from different suppliers, so > they used to be pretty much what you always got. I haven't looked in years > to know if that's still the case. > > I'm running on a Seagate Dockstar (a 128MB RAM version of the original > PogoPlug) with a Seagate laptop drive plugged in, and you can see the > serial adaptor available in the lsusb output below. > > root@debian:~# lsusb > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc2:2120 Seagate RSS LLC > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial > Port > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d7e49691-043f-4f6c-a998-dd91c3eaa34an%40googlegroups.com.
