Support for a virtual COM-port allowing other Homeautomation software use a TellStick Net

[stephane dierick <sdierick@…>]

I would suggest to develop a specific driver that could:

• From one side, emulate a viruel USB/COM port so it could be used by the several existing home automation softwares (homeseer,...)
• At the other side, convert the instruction sent to virtual COM port into TCP requests for the Telldus Net. That could be implemented in SOAP or RAW TCP or UDP depending what the telldusnet device is supporting easyly.

Check that GPL project:

 http://com0com.sourceforge.net/doc/UsingCom0com.pdf

Part of this master project based on virtual com port pairing:

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/com0com/

Problems:

• Windows based software
• Need to be adapted because we don't want to connect like This

PC.A--virtualCOM------tcp------virtualCOM--PC.B
but
PC.A--virtualCOM------tcp (or UDP??)------TelldusNet

[micke prag <micke.prag@…>]

Since this project is released under GPL we cannot use any code in our project.
We have to rewrite the same functionality in our code or use the software "as is".

[carlos alarcon <caralarfer@…>]

Maybe it can be useful  http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat-ttyovertcp.txt
It telles how to configure a Host with a Serial Device so it will wait for TCP connections from another host that will be mapped into the serial device.

So it could be set in the other way. The Net opens up a listen socket on a port, and from the Server (PC) we connect to that socet and send it all to Serial device which would be use by Telldus-core as used today

Info about RS-232 to Ethernet, here:  http://blog.philippklaus.de/2011/08/make-rs232-serial-devices-accessible-via-ethernet/