Making a ln -s permanent upon boot

[beckmaxwell08]

Hi I have been working with Glediator for a few months now to get it to start up on my RPI and WS2812 light, well I finally got it to work! Only problem is when I reboot my RPI I have to re-enter a symbolic link

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sudo ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/ttyS89

This line is a must for RXTX to read my Arduino Uno's COM Port. Is there a way I can make this permanent so I don't have to retype EVERY reboot. If not that's alright, but it would be a time saver! Just in case this is also needed

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ls -l /dev/ttyACM0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Mar 21 21:20 /DEV/ttyACM0
ls -l /dev/ttyS89
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 21 21:56 /dev/ttyS89 -> /dev/ttyACM0

Thank you so much.

[topguy]

What is "RXTX" and why cant it be programmed/configured to use ttyACM0 directly ?

The simplest way is just to add the command (without sudo) to "/etc/rc.local" then it will run on every boot.

[DougieLawson]

To do what you want will need a udev rule.

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pi@pioneer:~$ cd /etc/udev/rules.d/
pi@pioneer:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls
40-scratch.rules     80-arduino.rules  99-input.rules
71-foot_drive.rules  99-com.rules
pi@pioneer:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-arduino.rules
KERNEL=="ttyAMA0",SYMLINK+="ttyS0" GROUP="dialout"
KERNEL=="ttyACM0",SYMLINK+="ttyS1" GROUP="dialout"
pi@pioneer:/etc/udev/rules.d$