Repurpose Polisy Hardware After eisy Migration?

[gklimo]

I recently migrated from a Polisy Pro to eisy | home. Everything is working great.

Since I no longer use the Polisy for IoX, I'd like to repurpose the Polisy hardware by installing Debian. From what I can tell, Polisy uses PC Engines hardware.

I've found some reference information on how to install Debian on a PC Engines platform. It involves invoking installation commands over the serial port and a USB thumb drive containing Debian.

Unfortunately, I've been unsuccessful at communicating with the system over the serial port using Putty, SecureCRT, etc. I've tried a straight through RS232 cable, a null modem cable, every possible baud rate, etc. I've rebooted and reset the system many times without luck. Still no serial communications or prompt of any kind over my confirmed working PC based serial port.

I've since restored a previous mSATA SSD disk image I created prior to my attempts. Polisy is currently back to its original state and can be accessed on my network.

Has anybody been successful at repurposing Polisy hardware? If so, I'd appreciate pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks!

[Guy Lavoie]

I haven't tried that, but since the serial port is normally used for an Insteon PLM, then that port would not be enabled as a login port. Back in the old Unix system V days, the port would be enabled in /etc/inittab. This would be different in FreeBSD, looks like it's /etc/ttys. The serial port appears to be /dev/ttyu0

Look at this link to see how how to set this up. Scroll down to section 29.3.1

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/serialcomms/

Once you get that figured out, find the equivalent for the OS you want to install.

Edited 18 hours ago by Guy Lavoie