Alternative to Companion routing

Hi @enderocean thank you for your suggestion, I will give it a try later.

For now, I ended up going a different route.

I used virtualhere.

I was helped by @SoSub and Isaac Banister from SOSUB so the credit really goes to them.

This is free for one device and seems to work well.

Here is a step by step

Ensure your Rpi is accessible.

Open Chrome

Type in 192.168.2.2:8088

Click on open terminal

Type in:
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This should happen:

Type in:
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Type in:
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When done your terminal window should look like this:

You have now installed and started the USB server

Now you need to make sue its going to start when the Rpi starts.

Type In:
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this will appear:
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type 2 and press enter

This will appear:

Use your down key and go all the way to the bottom and type this:
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Press Ctrl + X to exit

You will be prompted to save or discard

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Type Y and press enter

You should be back on the main screen and it should look like this:

This is it for the Rpi.

Close the browser and download the VirtualHere USB Client

https://www.virtualhere.com/usb_client_software?fbclid=IwAR0S13Q4BPTxPkjgVrJv3F1YwVfOvGwt_te2VOosMOG3EnZfNgDTRzDIM2w

Then you run the software and you should get this:

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right click on USB Hubs and select Specify Hubs…
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This window will open:
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Click add and this window will open

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Type in the Rpi ip address
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Press ok
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Press close

When the port gets detected this window will appear:
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Then the client will show something like this depending on what you have connected
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In my case it opened com26.

So its like my arduino is connected directly on my computer on com port 26…

Hope this helps someone else.

Cheers,
E.