Is there a linux Driver module for Elitech data logger RC5 ?
Bernard
bdebreil at teaser.fr
Tue Sep 11 11:03:25 UTC 2018
Thanks for your help.
I haven't yet succeeded in getting this device working.
There were two things to be tested.
The first one was proposed by Eero, who suggested a device setup by 'CIVIC'
civic/elitech-datareader
This software implies that a serial driver get installed first. At this
stage, I fail to undersand. A serial driver ?? Why on Earth ? The RC5
Elitech device is not 'serial', it is a usb device with a usb plug... To
my knowledge, serial modules are somewhat outdated, and I don't know of
any recent one, years have elapsed since every computer had RS232 serial
ports... However, supposing that such system may operate with a device
that is connected to a usb port, I ought to give it a try.
Unfortunately, when the matter came to download the serial driver module
for linux on a software site in China, I found that it was all written
in Chinese, with barely 5 or 6 English words on each page, which was not
enough for me to understand... I tested a few zip files which I
couldn't unzip, the zip module saying that it couldn't find needed parts
of the files...
A comment was made by Robert :
'It might show up as a serial port (eg /dev/ttyACM? or /dev/ttyUSB?). You
would then need to write a program that reads and decodes the messages
sent.'
In my /dev directory, i found this :
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 sept. 11 12:36 serial
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 sept. 10 19:44 ttyUSB0
those 2 lines appear and disappear when plugging/unplugging the RC5,
which confirms,
but I don't know what to do next.
Then Oliver did propose the second thing :
'first hit when googling "Elitech data logger RC5 linux" points to:
https://pypi.org/project/elitech-datareader/'
the third line of the description:
"Enables to use RC-4/RC-5 on Mac, Linux, Windows."
... kind of indicates it works'.
On this site, Brian R Mooga states that in 2015 he succeeded to get RC5
Elitech data collector to operate on his linux system Ubuntu 14.04. His
lsusb test said :
Bus 002 Device 011 id 0c45:7401 Microdia
My system (Debian Stretch) says, when the device is connected to an usb
port :
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004 id 1a86:7523 Qin Heng Electronics HL-320 USB-Serial
adapter
I tested the url above
Below are the details :
I am on Debian Stretch, so I don't use 'sudo', but I log as superuser.
lsusb shows this :
Bus 001 Device 004:ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial
adapter
while Brian got in 2015 :
Bus 002 Device 011:ID 0c45:7401 Microdia)
However I did install Python software as suggested. It went up to the
point :
.......................
......................
# cd /home/bd/tmp
# git clone git://....................................
# cd temper-python/
# python setup.py install
there, I got an error message, about the instruction ', encoding' that
was said not to be available. I then edited the setup.py file and
removed this parameter, and tried again :
# python setup.py install
This time, I had no errors. But, if I launch :
# temper-poll
it says :
Found 0 devices
I tried the same thing on my laptop running ubuntu 14.04 and got the
same results
Thanks in advance for more help
Bernard
On 05/09/2018 20:13, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> this device ?
> https://github.com/civic/elitech-datareader/blob/master/README.md
>
> Eero
>
> ke 5. syysk. 2018 klo 19.27 Bernard <bdebreil at teaser.fr
> <mailto:bdebreil at teaser.fr>> kirjoitti:
>
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> This 'Elitech data logger RC5' is a temperature recorder available from
> amazon. From the online notice, it is supposed to be a "windows only"
> system. However, quite a few such apparatus can operate at least
> basically on linux, either directly (the system appears as a usb device
> once connected to the computer), or through a debian or ubuntu module
> available.
>
> Could anyone tell me if this may apply to the 'Elitech data logger
> RC5',
> and what would be the name of such module ? If this is not the
> case, is
> there another temperature data logger that would work under Ubuntu ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Bernard
>
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