OpenWRT + Router Station Pro + Arduino = Fun

Posted by Ril3y on September 30, 2009

Around 11PM last night I finally was able to get all the Arduino Hardware talking to my Openwrt Router Station Pro Installation. These are the packages you need to have on your system. (if you built your own firmware with theses great! otherwise just opkg install them)

Like So:

root@OpenWrt:~# opgk install usbutils

Install the rest of these packages the exact same way:

usb-ohci

kmod-usb-serial-ftdi

kmod-usb2

kmod-usb-serial(Note: these packages are needed if you want to us the MMC/SD Card on the RS PRO)

kmod-usb-storage

kmod-mmc

Once that is done you can issue the lsusb command to see if your system recognizes the Arduino FTDI interface. You should see something like this.

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0723 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

If you do not see the UART (FTDI) device go ahead and reboot your system and it should come up. If it does not you are missing a package email me we can see whats up.

Will add more later but here some screenshots of the system working.

Tags: arduino, hacking, Linux, openwrt, pyserial, python, Security

Comments (3)

pilo

March 31st, 2010 07:04

thanks man you helped me alot

Igor

June 3rd, 2010 14:38

Cool!! Do you have more information how to do it? Arduino scketch, router soft,… are you using C/bash script/… for the router?

Regards,

Ril3y

June 3rd, 2010 14:53

No I do not anymore. But its not too hard. If you want to communicate with the arduino and the wifi router I suggest you read about pyserial.

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Python is a good place to start. However, You can use perl, c, c++, really any language you want that has serial port support. I use python because its quick and easy. You just need to implement some seral.read() lines in your arduino sketch and then toss in stuff from the router program to a serial port… /dev/ttyUSB0 or what not.

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