Digi Watchport/T temperature sensor as /dev/ttyU

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 23 Jul 2016, at 02:05, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> I tried to load any available USB serial port/adaptor driver available to make this
> sensor attach as a ttyU? as it does in Linux (/dev/ttyUSB), but no luck so far. I'm not
> familiar with serial consoles or the derial capabilities of FreeBSD, so i might have
> overseen something essential. I'd like to access the sensor to retrieve temperature data,
> even if it is in a crude way. Poking around with USB, I found that the sensor device does
> release some informations, so hopefully there is a way to make it look like a tty, see my
> attempts to get some informations out of the device below.

Do you know what driver picks it up in Linux?
It's pretty likely you just need to add an entry in one of the existing drivers to tell it about this device.

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