From 0c4b5be6212e962dbc97c1576facbde91cd9db9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Hadaller Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:30:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update uses.mdx Added brief instructions to find out necessary group for device permissions --- docs/software/python/uses.mdx | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/software/python/uses.mdx b/docs/software/python/uses.mdx index 2bc7f08a..ad5291e4 100644 --- a/docs/software/python/uses.mdx +++ b/docs/software/python/uses.mdx @@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ This indicates an OS permission problem for access by your user to the USB seria sudo usermod -a -G dialout ``` +If the adding the user to the dialout group does not work, you can use the following command to find out which group to add your user to. +In this example (from Arch Linux) the group was "uucp" +```shell +❯ ls -al /dev/ttyACM0 +crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 166, 0 Jul 20 21:52 /dev/ttyACM0 +``` + ### Mac OS Big Sur There is a problem with Big Sur and pyserial. The workaround is to install a newer version of pyserial: