[PLUG] Setting serial parameters

Denis Heidtmann denish at dslnorthwest.net
Wed Apr 30 20:09:30 UTC 2008


Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:25 -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> 
>> The docs for my program mention the symlink to set the serial port, as well as 
>> setting an environment variable X10_PORTNAME.  I chose the latter.  But here is 
>> what I get with various settings:
>>
>>
>> parents at R2D2:~$ X10_PORTNAME=/dev/ttys0
>> parents at R2D2:~$ x10 -t
>> Could not access serial port /dev/ttys0
>> Please set environment variable X10_PORTNAME to proper serial device
>> or else make the appropriate soft link as superuser.
> 
> You have to export the environment variable for processes other than the
> current shell to see it:
> 
> $ X10_PORTNAME=/dev/ttyS0
> $ export X10_PORTNAME
> 
> or just:
> 
> $ export X10_PORTNAME=/dev/ttyS0
> 
> Wil

Still nothing.  I am going to try a windows program just in case my memory of 
x10 working last year is faulty.

-Denis




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