2018-07-15, 12:22 AM
Just a little thing, but it caused me an hour of fiddling before I figured it out.
In the Serial Port assignment, you are allowed to use an upper case name. In my case, I'm using a dAISy Hat, so I named the port 'AIS', which became /dev/ttyOP_AIS. This in turn named the serial port in the system "AIS".
When I assigned that port to kplex, there was an input with an upper case name, "AIS". Since that isn't allowed in kplex, it didn't work.
Of course, the work-around was to rename the serial port /dev/ttyOP_ais, which gave the serial port, and the kplex interface, a lower case name.
I suggest either using the same alert that is used in the kplex page about using lower case names, or perhaps just using a little code to make whatever name is inserted lower case when it is assigned to kplex.
In the Serial Port assignment, you are allowed to use an upper case name. In my case, I'm using a dAISy Hat, so I named the port 'AIS', which became /dev/ttyOP_AIS. This in turn named the serial port in the system "AIS".
When I assigned that port to kplex, there was an input with an upper case name, "AIS". Since that isn't allowed in kplex, it didn't work.
Of course, the work-around was to rename the serial port /dev/ttyOP_ais, which gave the serial port, and the kplex interface, a lower case name.
I suggest either using the same alert that is used in the kplex page about using lower case names, or perhaps just using a little code to make whatever name is inserted lower case when it is assigned to kplex.