[GTALUG] Problem with /dev/ttyUSB* serial port

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2019-10-31 9:11 a.m., Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 02:25, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> Is there a way that I can always have it show up as /dev/ttyUSB0
> 
> I think the proper way is to provide a udev rule to identify the
> device and assign a fixed name to it.
> 
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66901/how-to-bind-usb-device-under-a-static-name

The other option is to write your software so that it gets notified when a 
USB device is installed/removed. You will be told the actual device name. I 
needed to do this to detect insertion/removal of a barcode reader.

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