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--- livebox:portable [2015/03/13 23:19] – [Direct installation] brett
+++ livebox:portable [2016/01/30 01:06] – [External hardware] brett
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 yum groupinstall "Development Tools" --skip-broken
 </code>
+====== External hardware ======
+To get the external hardware to work on a non-livebox device you need to adjust the /etc/xap.d/xap-livebox.ini file
+<code>
+port=/dev/ttyO4
+initserial=+++
+</code>
+Why do you need this initserial=+++ configuration line?
+The external hardware goes into a loop and listen on the serial port consuming all the console text the livebox emitted and simply discards it until it see the +++ token.   I do this so that some spurious piece of livebox startup text won't trigger the external hardware to do something it should not.   This token on the livebox is normally emitted by the /etc/init.d/controlpcb livebox startup script.   HOWEVER that script does not exist in the portable distribution as it makes no sense as the  HAH hardware is not attached to the console serial port.  So we use this initserial= argument as a workaround.