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Serial over Ethernet with HA (piefed.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I just picked up a 4K commercial display to upgrade my TV for cheap. It has an RS232C port on the back for control, and Home Assistant has a native integration to control it via a local Linux tty. The hitch is that my Home Assistant server is located in a spot not near the television, and running physical serial line to it would be inconvenient. But, since I have a Raspberry Pi connected as the streaming media box, I should be able to plug a USB adapter into it and route the serial data over the network, right?

Is there a a good way to do this in HAOS?

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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

https://esphome.io/components/serial_proxy/

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Serial-to-TCP-Bridge/

A esp32 dev board and some soldering might work.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Thanks! I've got the TV end covered, the issue is at the HAOS end. The LG serial TV integration talks to a Linux device node (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0), so the issue is stuffing the TCP stream back into a pty.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That’s what they’re saying - you can use an ESP32 device as a serial proxy without having to do anything special. If you already have a device attached to it you could use the socket:/… syntax below.

    Per the integration documentation:

    Port

    The serial port the TV is connected to. This can be a local device path or a remote serial proxy URL. For example, /dev/ttyUSB0 (USB adapter), socket://192.168.1.100:2000(network proxy), or socket://esphome-device.local:6638 (ESPHome).

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    As mentioned by CondorWonder, the LG via Serial HA Integration can already connect to a TCP socket instead of a TTY device.

    If you want to use your Raspberry Pi as the serial proxy server, there's tons of options. To recommend something kinda modern, I'd put a systemd service on your raspberry pi which starts netcat on a stty, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/71173551/2232127 as an example.

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