libgtr

This crate provides communication with the PhotonFirst GTR-1001 fiber optic sensing system interrogator ("Gator") over a serial port. It handles packet parsing, synchronization, and exposes a thread-safe API for receiving parsed data.

*nix Notes

The FTDI driver is statically compiled into the library, so you do not need to install any additional drivers on Linux.

To access the FTDI USB device as a regular user on Linux you need to update the udev rules.

Create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ftdi.rules with:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6011", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6014", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6015", MODE="0666"

Then, reload the rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

If you get an error DEVICE_NOT_OPENED, you may need to blacklist the ftdi_sio kernel module:

sudo rmmod ftdi_sio # temporary
echo "blacklist ftdi_sio" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ftdi_sio.conf # permanent