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We have a USB device controlled by FTDI's D2XX drivers. It's currently controlled from a Windows machine via a Python interface and as a fun project I tried moving the control to a Raspberry Pi (about 1/10th the cost of a PC, not including the OS cost).

I downloaded the Wheezy distribution and used Win32DiskImager to write to a 4 GB SD card. The Raspberry Pi booted with no problems. I then unpacked the D2XX library (libftd2xx.so) and installed it into /usr/local/lib.

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PyUSB (1.6) currently is tested only against Windows, but they provide the source code. It's pretty straightforward to compile a copy for Raspberry Pi. Basically, modify setup.py to link to the libftd2xx.so library (no need to copy it). Also edit d2xx/_d2xx.c to comment out the routines with no Linux implementation (currently ftobj_Rescan, ftobj_Reload ftobj_GetComPortNumber). Copy WinTypes.h and ftd2xx.h from the FTDI D2XX driver download (in the release) directory into ftdi-win32 and run python setup.py install which will compile and install the Python module.

The d2xx module could not seem to find the libftd2xx.so file. So, I tweaked the setup.py script to link to the static copy of the library, libftd2xx.a. Voila, I had my first clue of the problem: The D2XX library was built using soft-float, and my Wheezy distribution was configured to use floating point registers. That is, the gcc on my system generated code that was binary incompatible with the D2XX libraries and would not allow them to be linked to.

After installing FTDI's D2XX drivers and building a d2xx Python module from PyUSB, I tried the test script again. Again it failed. The d2xx module could read the libftd2xx.so library no problem, but for some reason could just not talk to the device.

With the FTDI package there's a test, under release/examples/EEPROM/read. You must build it, but that's simply a matter of typing make. Running it (via sudo), it failed to open the USB device, so clearly it wasn't PyUSB. After poking around, I found a reference to a driver, ftdi_sio, and that it could conflict with other D2XX drivers. So, using lsmod, I saw ftdi_sio was already installed by default, so I ran rmmod ftdi_sio. After that, everything worked. The read command should show something like this:

I have two drivers that conflict with each other and the one I never use is the D2XX driver - I don't even remember why I have it on my Mac. I want to remove it but the support website just tells me how to do it in OSX which is a long time ago! I'm not a software engineer, just a follow it to the letter kind of user. I'd really appreciate some help in how to get rid of this - I could drag and drop it but its a kext file loaded in the extensions file so I'm not sure if that would damage the system (the one I need is FTDIUSBSerialDriver but they conflict)

I am very sure, all the version of labview, drivers, example code and hardware are exactly same. The only difference is the example code running on windows7 computer and windows 10 computer. I even try it on multiple windows 7 and windows 10 computers. They all work same.

But, my serial monitor was no more, and a bit of snooping on this forum & elsewhere suggested that folks were configuring the serial monitor like I had it originally: using the second port provisioned by the VCP drivers. Hmm?

FTDI has a number of application notes that help explain the usage of of the VCP and D2XX drivers. Most OSes enumerate USB Bridge devices as COM or TTY devices which have a limited range and number of supported baud rates.

Note that there is latency built into the FTDI drivers, -04_DataLatencyFlow.pdf, so this theoretical data rate will realistically be around 1 Mbaud with the default FTDI drivers. You might be able to get higher rates from the tutorial @zygot linked as well finding these other threads worth a read:

If you back out and reset the USB drivers, and make sure you have 5vdc already connected to the AD2, then connect the USB cable to the AD2, the LED in the AD2 does NOT light, and it is NOT detectable by Waveforms.

Waveforms no longer can detect the AD2, as the VCP and D2XX drivers are once again in contention. I've tried the usual stuff: connecting directly to the machine, using a short cable, trying a different cable, using a powered hub instead of unpowered, etc., etc...

Hi Alex,

I am not sure if I get your answer right? Or my question was unclear ?

Yes the ftdi_sio is loaded when an FTDI device is plugged in. From the FTDI manuals, it looks like that this driver needs to be unloaded and a ftd2xx driver needs to be loaded in prior to using the D2XX interface.

Is there a way to switch from FTDI VCP to D2XX and from D2XX to FTDI VCP without restarting the system ?

However I am not capable to connect to this device using the D2XX driver, which is necessary for programming it: neither with the DLP_3D_Printer software provided by the TI, nor using the Software Development Kit (SDK) examples. The error I get is that FTD2XX.dll is missing, which indicates to the issue with the driver. As a matter of fact, the SerialPort converter does not appear in the Device Manager. It is recognized as HID in the Devices and Printers (see screenshot). When I tried to update the driver the Windows left the same one stating that this is the most current driver. I have tried this procedure on different operating systems: Windows 10 x64, Windows 7 x86, and Windows XP x64 with the same result, even with the signed driver check set to OFF. I start to suspect that USB cable is not meant to control this device using D2XX drivers.

I've been trying to use the mega adk usb host to control a device. I was using the usb host shield library from here GitHub - felis/USB_Host_Shield_2.0: Revision 2.0 of USB Host Library for Arduino., using code I wrote based on the FTDI loopback example. Unfortunately I've had no success in getting it to work (yes, I have enable the mega in settings.h). I noticed today that the computer drivers for the device are ftdi D2XX drivers and the I Think the code in the library is written for a VCP device.

I send a event log when I connect the device to the host usb port. Before I just removed the ftdi_sio and usbserial drivers. Repeating the rmmod command I get the message that the drivers are not loaded.

According the FTDI manual, I need to detach the VCP drivers because it is Linux.

The libftd2xx seamed more complicated to use and that it is why I was avoiding to use ( also the device supplier has already some routines with D2xx drivers ).

I will try to blacklist the drivers.

It appears you have all the correct FTDI/serial packages installed, except for libftdi or libftdi1, unless either was installed as a dependency and not listed in your output... please post the output of:

opkg list-installed | grep ftdi

I am trying to connect an iOptron CEM25p mount to a computer running Windows 7 using this cable with a built in FTDI chip. I have three options for drivers- D2XX, VCP, and CDM, which contains both the D2XX and VCP drivers.

I am planning to install ASCOM platform, the CEM25p ASCOM driver from iOptron, and PHD2, which is packaged with the driver for my guide camera (SSAG). I'd like PHD2 to know the pointing direction of my mount, and be able to reuse calibration data. I'm unsure which of these drivers would be suitable for this purpose.

There's a download that I think installs both drivers. That's what I used recently. I have the feeling that it doesn't much matter as I've never paid attention to the distinction and things have always worked for me.

If the connected programmer/debugger appears as a USB Serial Cable device after the USB drivers have been installed, either the FTDI drivers are missing or corrupt, or the FTDI chip inside the programmer/debugger has not been programmed with the proper settings. Follow these instructions to install the FTDI D2XX Drivers for unrecognized CCS programmers/debuggers and reprogram the FTDI chip inside them with the proper settings.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install FTDI drivers on multiple operating systems. Although this tutorial was written using Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6, and Ubuntu 13.04, the process should be very similar, if not exactly the same, for other versions/variations of these operating systems.

There are also some legacy Arduino boards that use the FT232RL. The Arduino Diecimila and Duemilanove main boards along with the original Arduino Mega all use the FT232RL IC. If you have one of these older versions, you'll want to use the FDTI drivers as well. For a complete list of all Arduino boards, check out this page. Newer versions of Arduino boards, such as the Uno, use a different communication IC, and they will not be covered in this tutorial.

Most of the time, when you install Arduino on Mac OS X, the drivers are installed automatically. However, if there was a problem with the installation and you don't see any options that include 'usbserial' under the 'Tools -> Serial Port' menu, then you will need to install the drivers. You may also need to install the full FTDI drivers if you are running OSX 10.10 or later. The factory drivers are not complete.

With Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks) and later, Apple has built their own version of the FTDI VCP driver into the operating system (AN134). However, there seems to be some conflict between drivers from FTDIchip.com and the ones inherent to Apple. Luckily, there is a solution to this problem, and it comes from FTDI directly.

If you are trying to use the FTDI VCP Driver in your applications, it will not work due to a conflict between the VCP and D2XX drivers. In order to get around this, the Apple supplied Driver must be uninstalled. Plug in the FTDI device in question, and type the following command in a Terminal window: 006ab0faaa