Hello everybody!

Again me with a strange question

But, I guess, there are some people, that like to discuss unussual questions.

What I would like to do.
I want to plug a usb-controlled microscheme to a USB port of my router that is runing OpenWRT.
I want to use an open-source programm (I will have it soon) to run the device on the USB port.
And i want to have a remote-control web-gui on a PC, that is in the same network, that is my router.
Is not this explanation very messy?

The solution I am thinking about is sharing the USB port through the network. Is that possible on OpenWRT?

One more thing: It is actually a virtual COM port. But it is allready supported by the linux kernel older then 2.6.31 (?)

Any ideas?

Thank you!

The USB/IP project is what you're looking for.  Nowever, I have no idea whether you can load a USB-serial driver on top of USB-IP virtual USB port.

Since OpenWrt already has USB and USB-serial drivers, can you split your open source program into two pieces?  One piece running on OpenWrt, the other on your PC.

My latest idea now is to make a daemon, that translates commands from IP port directly to the virtual COM-port (the usb device is actually a virtual com)
It seems to be more simply. But there I have some more questions and I would like to discuss them in a nearest topic here.

But still, if I would like to send the information from the usb-camera to the server - i will need to share my USB port.. Or to run another daemon on local router. I did not decided yet.