Finding USB serial device ID on VirtualBox

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Hello, I’m using HA on a Mac, running in VirtualBox. I am also using an Aeotec zwave zstick 7. I have also installed the zwave JS UI add-on. I have it configured and working, however, the zwave JS UI instructions suggest that you should use the serial number of the device as a more robust link vs /dev/ttyUSB0. (Z-Wave JS UI)

Can anyone tell me how do I find this string? Ideally I’d like to just have a command shell inside the running HA Virtualbox and I could do ls /dev/ or even somehow install lsusb, but I’m a VirtualBox rookie and haven’t figured this out yet.

I did install the Extensions pack, which unlocked USB 2/3 drivers, and added a filter for the USB device, so that all works currently.

Any tips welcome!

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Open settings/system/hardware/all hardware, and look up your device

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Thanks that worked! The path was Settings->System->Hardware->All Hardware.

For future reference, I discovered I could do login from the HA guest console, and that drops you into a root shell at which point you can query the contents of /dev. However, this console doens’t scroll and I wasn’t able to copy/paste out of it, so the solution above is way better!