Requirement

Hardware or software required:

Raspberry Pi
SD Card (for RPi)
Raspberry Pi Imager
USB to Serial converter

Preparing RPi

Installing OS

We can use this article to prepare the OS for RPi

Install ser2net

Run the following command. We can connect USB to serial at this point of time

# Update existing installed package
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 

# Install ser2net package
sudo apt install ser2net -y

# Get serial converter address
dmesg -T | grep tty

We should have return from the above code as sample below

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: … 
[    0.001127] printk: … 
[    1.410816] fe201000.serial: …

[    5.671105] usb 1-1.3: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Configure ser2net

Next, we’ll edit configuration file for ser2net. This configuration has been updated from .cfg to .yaml format

# Edit ser2net configuration file
sudo nano /etc/ser2net.yaml

# Add the following yaml

%YAML 1.1
---

define: &banner01 Connected to port \N(\d)\r\n

default:
  name: local
  value: true
  class: serialdev


default:
      name: mdns
      value: true

default:
      name: mdns-sysattrs
      value: true

### Accepter specifications:
# connection: &<alias>
#   accepter: <tcp/udp>,<port>
#   connector: <serialdev/telnet/ipmisol>
## Optional fields
#   timeout: <seconds, default 0: no timeout>

connection: &con01
  accepter: tcp,10001
  timeout: 600
  connector: serialdev,/dev/ttyUSB0,9600n81
  options:
    banner: *banner01
    kickolduser: true

For more information,

Auto Start

Run the following command


sudo systemctl enable ser2net

# Add sleep before starting service
sudo sed -i '/^\[Service\].*/a ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30' /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ser2net.service

# Run the following after saving
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start ser2net

Preparing Windows Client

Install TruePort

TruePort can be found at TruePort Downloads – Serial to Ethernet Drivers and Manuals-Perle

Configure TruePort

After installation, change the name to your liking and point IP address to ser2net server above

Change TCP port number at the Perle configuration, and change connection mode to Lite Mode.

Change the port number to configured port number (e.g. 3000)