Anyone using Russound RNET component? I could use a walkthrough

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I know that since I could have also used a walkthrough, here is what I did after struggling for a few days.

First off, buy a good (non chinese knock-off) of USB to RS-232 prolific or FTDI. I found one on amazon for about 15$

After, I tried using tcp_serial_redirect.py for a while, I could never make it work. I used ser2net and followed this guide.

To sum up what I did:

sudo apt install ser2net -y

Determine where your USB is located using, mine was ttyUSB0:

dmesg | grep tty

Then edit /etc/ser2net.conf. using

sudo nano /etc/ser2net.conf

Here modify the file to comment everything and add:

BANNER:banner:CONSOLE LAB Terminal Server TCP port p device d serial parms srn
 
TRACEFILE:tr1:/var/log/ser2net/p-Y-M-D-H:i:s.U
6271:telnet:0:/dev/ttyUSB0:19200 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT banner tr=tr1 timestamp

Save that file (Ctrl-o) and to make Ser2Net starts up automatically:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add the following above exit 0

/usr/local/sbin/ser2net -n -c /etc/ser2net.conf

You can create a log directory for ser2net sessions:

sudo mkdir /var/log/ser2net

I modified my russound in configuration.yaml like so:

 #Russounds @ dev/TTYUSB0
 media_player:
   - platform: russound_rnet
     host: 127.0.0.1
     port: 6271
     name: Russound
     zones:
       1:
         name: Bathroom
       2:
         name: Living Room
       3:
         name: Kitchen
       4:
         name: Outdoor
     sources:
       - name: TV
       - name: PC
       - name: Android
       - name: Bluetooth

Finally reboot your system. It worked for me and I hope it’ll works for someone else. Thanks to @gth758y for his guide.

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