RC-5 showing up as storage instead of serial device.

[sonofhypnos]

The readme mentions how to add the path for the serial device, but on my machine, the usb is only showing up as a storage device, so not quite sure what to do. Here's my dmesg output after plugging in the device:

[12594.940298] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[12595.123189] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=246c, idProduct=9001, bcdDevice= 0.00
[12595.123199] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=2
[12595.123201] usb 1-4: Product: MSC+HID
[12595.123204] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: FMSH
[12595.123206] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: MSC+HID
[12595.150208] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[12595.151128] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[12595.162074] hid-generic 0003:246C:9001.0005: hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [FMSH MSC+HID] on usb-0000:04:00.3-4/input1
[12596.166872] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FMSH     NorFlashDriver   1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[12596.167221] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[12596.167642] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 256 512-byte logical blocks: (131 kB/128 KiB)
[12596.167865] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[12596.167867] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[12596.168086] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
[12596.168090] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[12596.178433]  sda:
[12596.179912] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

output from ls /dev/tty*:

/dev/tty    /dev/tty13  /dev/tty19  /dev/tty24  /dev/tty3   /dev/tty35  /dev/tty40  /dev/tty46  /dev/tty51  /dev/tty57  /dev/tty62      /dev/ttyS0   /dev/ttyS14  /dev/ttyS2   /dev/ttyS25  /dev/ttyS30  /dev/ttyS8
/dev/tty0   /dev/tty14  /dev/tty2   /dev/tty25  /dev/tty30  /dev/tty36  /dev/tty41  /dev/tty47  /dev/tty52  /dev/tty58  /dev/tty63      /dev/ttyS1   /dev/ttyS15  /dev/ttyS20  /dev/ttyS26  /dev/ttyS31  /dev/ttyS9
/dev/tty1   /dev/tty15  /dev/tty20  /dev/tty26  /dev/tty31  /dev/tty37  /dev/tty42  /dev/tty48  /dev/tty53  /dev/tty59  /dev/tty7       /dev/ttyS10  /dev/ttyS16  /dev/ttyS21  /dev/ttyS27  /dev/ttyS4
/dev/tty10  /dev/tty16  /dev/tty21  /dev/tty27  /dev/tty32  /dev/tty38  /dev/tty43  /dev/tty49  /dev/tty54  /dev/tty6   /dev/tty8       /dev/ttyS11  /dev/ttyS17  /dev/ttyS22  /dev/ttyS28  /dev/ttyS5
/dev/tty11  /dev/tty17  /dev/tty22  /dev/tty28  /dev/tty33  /dev/tty39  /dev/tty44  /dev/tty5   /dev/tty55  /dev/tty60  /dev/tty9       /dev/ttyS12  /dev/ttyS18  /dev/ttyS23  /dev/ttyS29  /dev/ttyS6
/dev/tty12  /dev/tty18  /dev/tty23  /dev/tty29  /dev/tty34  /dev/tty4   /dev/tty45  /dev/tty50  /dev/tty56  /dev/tty61  /dev/ttyprintk  /dev/ttyS13  /dev/ttyS19  /dev/ttyS24  /dev/ttyS3   /dev/ttyS7

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.

[timatpam]

Unfortunately, the new 2024 Elitech RC-5 (S/N EFE24*) loggers do not use serial device protocol anymore. The devices use HID protocol like RC-5+ ones.

These bad guys decided to put different model into the old box under the same old name.

This project https://github.com/pasccom/python-elitech deals with HID protocol and RC-5+ loggers, it can communicate with the new RC-5 loggers, but it is very raw, unfinished, and unfortunately cannot be used for the novel RC-5.