[SOLVED] OpenHab serial port permission

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Hello,
i’m using correctly openhab 2.4; to use zwave dognle i need every restart to give /dev/tty permission with:
“sudo chown openhab:openhab /dev/***” and then works.
Now i have 2 questions:

  1. is possibile to run it with sudoers permission?
  2. i’m trying to use socat (rs232-tcp for EpsonPJ) but i can’t give openhab user to it so i can’t use that port
    Any suggestions?
    thanks in advance!
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Try adding group=dialout,mode=0660 to the socat cmdline

Example:

socat -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyUSB0,group=dialout,mode=0660,cfmakeraw tcp4:192.168.2.10:2000

Also consider creating a systemd service that starts the socat.

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Just search for socat in the forum

4

Thanks for help.
I added Openhab user to dialout group.
Then, with this:
pty,link=/dev/vircom0,raw,user=openhab,group=dialout,mode=777 tcp:x.x.x.x:port

now works correctly!

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@khael87 glad I could help and happy to see it’s working working.:+1:

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