On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:05:39PM +0000, Jurjen Oskam wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Earlier I had a Linux machine (well, a Raspberry Pi actually) which > I used to read out my energy meter. The energy meter was connected > to a USB port with a custom FTDI cable. The energy meter only > supports reading from it, writing to it is not possible.
Some years ago I used a Arduino Duemilanove in a project. This board uses the FTDI chipset uftdi(4). As Remco, it worked pretty well for me too, using cu(1) or tip(1) + /dev/cuaUx. -- db

