Enables the Raspberry Pi Serial Port in Host Mode. You can connect an SDCard and up to two hard disks or USB drives, which are detected as sda or sdb, and they will all have Host-Mode Serial enabled when you click start.
About
This project is a part of my HassOS Configurator project. The goal of this add-on, similar to root apps on Android, is to make a mole-hill out of a mountain.
Installation
Within Home Assistant, click Supervisor-> Add-on Store → … button (in top left)-> Repositories. Add this repository.
Click “HassOS Serial Configurator”, then install.
Please note, if you use previously used ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1 for your Zigbee or Z-Wave device, they will now be ttyUSB1 and ttyUSB2, respectively. You will need to update the OZW add-on configuration.
Thanks for this, just got my DeskPi Pro and was wondering how to get the script setup, but the output message is a little confusing, do I do the steps outlined in order, or do I do either 1 of the 2?
Hi. I have been struggling with this for two days now without success. I believe I have been following the outlined steps above to the dot, however, after restart the /dev/ttyUSB0 does not exists. I am running Home Assistant OS 8.5.
When running the HassOS serial configurator I get the following output:
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
serial already configured on sda1
no sdb1 config found
no mmcblk0p1 config found
This Configurator did it’s job. Perform a hard-power-off now. You can uninstall and reboot now. This configurator only works once.
@adamoutler I see this changes the driver to dwc2 and enables host mode on USB, is that right? How does this enable serial? (I am looking for how to read data off actual serial TX/RX pins of GPIO)
EDIT:
…unless you’re enabling host mode to use usb-serial adapter?
That’s it. All the configurator projects are one-shot configuration changes. They’re pretty easy when you have the proper access. It’s just getting that access that can be difficult. I found it difficult, so I hope this makes it easier for people.
I’m new to this forum and just starting my adventure with HA and Raspberry Pi so please bear with me if I write in the wrong topic or something similar
I have a question, does anyone have experience with the DeskPi Lite NAS Case and can help me configure and run the fan control in this case? I will be grateful for any help
I am new to HA, but not new to hacking around, so I am having a lot of fun right now. It’s fair to say that this, along with HassOS SSH port 22222 Configurator has saved me a bunch of time and frustratation as I was having issues with time synchronisation.
Now I have made these one time changed, I am curious whether I should think about reverting my serial from host mode to device mode. It kinda seems like a good thing to do.
So, my question is, how could I do this? Given that I have spent literally hours trying to sort the time sync issue, I figured I would ask here first before hitting the search engines.
First of all, thanks a lot @adamoutler for all your beautiful work!
I’m pretty new to the HA’s world and to be honest, I didn’t expect any add-ons available for DeskPi Pro case when I joined the community.
Sorry to dig up this topic but on my side, I got a DeskPi Pro case with a Raspberry Pi 4 and HA 11.2 and I can’t install the HassOS Configurator add-on.
When I copy/paste the Github repo, no problem, it’s detected.
But when I want to install the add-on from the store, it seems to be impossible:
