arduino-sensors-toolkit/debian/README.md

Installation on Debian

Install the following packages:

• python3-serial
• python3-paho-mqtt

Then git clone this repository to /opt/arduino-sensors-toolkit.

Create the serial2mqtt system user and add it to the dialout group to read the serial interface:

# adduser --system --disabled-password --disabled-login --home /var/lib/serial2mqtt \
    --no-create-home --quiet --force-badname --group serial2mqtt
# usermod -a -G dialout serial2mqtt

Copy the serial2mqtt.service file to /etc/systemd/system/serial2mqtt.service.

Copy the serial2mqtt.default file to /etc/default/serial2mqtt.

Reload systemd configuration with systemctl daemon-reload.

Enable service with systemctl enable serial2mqtt.service.