Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS support

[MartinThoma]

I've installed elitech:

$ pip3 install elitech-datareader

and tried

$  elitech-datareader --command simple-set --interval=10 /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART

but got

serial.serialutil.SerialException: [Errno 2] could not open port /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART'

Looking at the diff of ls /dev, I found that plugging the Elitech RC-5 in gives the following additional devices:

• hidraw1
• sdb
• sg1

Could you please help me? How do I configure the device?

[alex-gee]

I have a Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and a RC-5 at hand and could not reproduce your error.
But mine gets mounted at /dev/ttyUSB0. Sounds like some strange hardware related issue to me.

[ik8vrq]

Hi,

the RC5+ device from Elitech behaves like a mass store device (for pdf report, like a pendrive) and as a Human Interface Device for data flow. It has not a USBtty interface anymore.

So, with this device to read and write data It's necessary to use HIDDRAW interface not TTYUSBn way of communication.

The DMESG output on my linux box:

[ 7449.105879] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
[ 7449.520899] usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04d8, idProduct=3005
[ 7449.520902] usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 7449.523956] usb-storage 5-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 7449.527388] hid-generic 0003:04D8:3005.0004: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [www. DataLog] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-1/input1

So, imho, another approach is necessary.

Anyone can advice about this?

Regards, Angelo