USB to Serial emulation

Question

I bought this magnetic strip reader writer (MSRE106) and I use USB adapter to connect it to my laptop because I have no serial port in my computer. But now I have a problem since the software of the device recognizes only serial ports on windows. After looking up I found someone that wrote a python script for Linux (found here The Script).

Still even in this python script in the settings file it has this variable

## Com port.
COM = "COM1"

How can I change this to be one of my USB ports instead of a serial one because I have none

Answer 1

This script is made to use serial port as well, which means you can't just modify COM="USB1" or whatever to use your USB adapter. If you have a look at line 264 a serial port is open using function SerialPort().

To fix this issue you must install your USB adapter's driver that will emulate a serial port and create a fake COM1 you can use with this script or the original software of the MSRE106.