How to install FTDI driver in PCduino board

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Hi all,

I'm trying to send commands and receive measured data by connecting Arduino and a light meter with USB, but it needs a FTDI driver for this communication. I heard that PCduino has an integrated Linux Operation System where the driver can be installed, but what steps should I follow to install the FTDI driver in the operational system of the PCduino?
Thank you so much

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but it needs a FTDI driver for this communication

What does?

If the light meter has a USB output, it is a USB slave. The Arduino is also a USB slave. Without a master around, all the slaves do is sit around all day and drink up all the beer.

You need a USB Host (master) shield, and YOU need to write the USB driver. The FTDI driver will NOT be useful at all.

I heard that PCduino has an integrated Linux Operation System

The PCDuino is NOT an Arduino. This is NOT the appropriate place to ask questions about it.

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Hi,

I'm trying to send commands and receive measured data

Using what to send commands and receive data.?

connecting Arduino and a light meter with USB

What light meter?
What model Arduino?
Where is your code?

Thanks.. Tom.. :slight_smile:

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PaulS:
You need a USB Host (master) shield, and YOU need to write the USB driver. The FTDI driver will NOT be useful at all.

Thanks Paul and sorry for the late reply.
I got a USB host shield but I have no idea how to write the USB driver. Can you give me some suggestions about that?

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Can you give me some suggestions about that?

No. What the driver needs to do is dependent on what device it is talking to. You will need to study the data sheet for the device you are trying to talk to, to understand exactly what you need to do.

Writing USB drivers is not for the inexperienced.

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Hi Paul,

I uploaded the datasheet of the light meter. What I need to do is to send a series of commands to the light meter and then read the response. I tried to connect it directly with my computer using USB and send the commands manually via the USB Visual COM Port. It works well. But the USB driver is needed to establish the Visual COM Port.

Since the general Arduino models don't have the operation system for installing the driver, so I was thinking to use the PCduino which has the embedded Linux Operation System and install the USB driver into the PCduino. Do you think it is possible? Thank you so much.

cl-200a_cs0101e_eng comms specifications.pdf (415 KB)