Conbee II with current docker image?

lakewoodiot · June 4, 2019, 2:07pm

Could you tell me if conbee II works with current docker image?
container can’t find any adapter.
thanks.

dhylands · June 5, 2019, 12:30am

The container needs to be told which serial port to use.

I had to add --device=/dev/ttyACM1 to my docker run command since my ConBee II was on /dev/ttyACM1

I have a script called find_port.py which you can use to help find the ConBee port.

dhylands/usb-ser-mon/blob/master/usb_ser_mon/find_port.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Program which detects USB serial ports.
This program will search for a USB serial port using a search criteria.
In its simplest form, you can use the -l (--list) option to list all of
the detected serial ports.
You can also add the following filters:
--vid 2341      Will only match devices with a Vendor ID of 2341.
--pid 0001      Will only match devices with a Product ID of 0001
--vendor Micro  Will only match devices whose vendor name starts with Micro
--seral  00123  Will only match devices whose serial number stats with 00123
If you use -l or --list then detailed information about all of the matches
will be printed. If you don't use -l (or --list) then only the name of
the device will be printed (i.e. /dev/ttyACM0). This is useful in scripts
where you want to pass the name of the serial port into a utiity to open.
"""

from __future__ import print_function

import pyudev

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You can run find_port.py -l to list the ports:

USB Serial Device 0658:0200 with vendor '0658' found @/dev/ttyACM0
USB Serial Device 1cf1:0030 with vendor 'dresden_elektronik_ingenieurtechnik_GmbH' serial 'DE1948475' found @/dev/ttyACM1

You can then use:

find_port.py --vid 1cf1 --pid 0030

If you run the above you should see something like this:

$ find_port.py --vid 1cf1 --pid 0030
/dev/ttyACM1

You can then create a bash script to start your docker container. My script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
docker run \
    -d \
    --rm \
    -v /home/dhylands/moziot/gateway-docker/.mozilla-iot:/home/node/.mozilla-iot \
    --net=host \
    --name mozilla-iot-gateway \
    --device=$(find_port.py --vid 1cf1 --pid 0030) \
    gateway

lakewoodiot · June 5, 2019, 10:13pm

Thanks a lot.
your python tool is useful