USB driver

[joel]

I'd like to talk with a micro-controller via a text from a terminal on Red-Pitaya via the USB port. Is it possible or necessary to install FTDI's USB driver on the Red Pitaya?
Any thoughts on best way to do implement a text based serial interface from the Red-Pitaya's USB port?

[Crt Valentincic]

I think using FTDI is the best solution for that. At the moment this driver is not present in the Red Pitaya OS, but we can try to add it and see if it works.

[JanMSch]

Hi there,
I'd also like use a FTDI USB-serial converter (FT232RL or similar) to connect from the redPitaya to a microcontroller based system.
Is there any progress in adding the driver to the OS, or has somebody a nice step-by-step instruction how to do it manually (if possible)?

Thanks in advance
Jan

[pavel-demin]

Hi Jan,

You can try to boot your Red Pitaya with the Ubuntu 14.04 image

https://googledrive.com/host/0B-t5klOOy ... 150130.zip

and you'll have access to all drivers from the Ubuntu distribution.

To write the image to a SD card, the dd command-line utility can be used on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X or Win32 Disk Imager can be used on MS Windows.

The default user name is root and the default password is changeme.

You can find more details about this image at

http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya ... d-blinker/

Cheers,

Pavel