Connect to your ODROID via USB UART Terminal Connection on Windows
This guide will show you how to have terminal access to your ODroid N2 through a USB UART serial connection. This means you
- Do not need to deal with setting up a network connection
- Do not need to connect a monitor
USB UART is great for a compact, simple headless setup
Requirements
- An ODroid N2 and USB-UART 2 Module Kit
- A micro USB to USB connector (or whatever USB port your computer has)
- An OS installed your ODROID
Connect up your UART kit boot the ODroid
Drivers
- Open up “Device Manager” through windows search
Windows might install the drivers for you, check the Ports section. If there is a yellow exclamation icon on your “USB to UART bridge controller” then you probably need to manually install the drivers. My device before I installed the drivers was called “cp2102n USB to UART bridge controller”
Copy the text of the device into search and look for the device manufacturer's drivers. I have a Beelink SER6 7735HS and my drivers were on silabs’ website
- Download the driver archive and extract it to a folder
- Double click your device in device manager and click browse for drivers on your computer
- navigate to the extracted folder and open
The driver should now be installed.
A Connection via Putty
Putty is well known as a SSH client, however it also serves as a serial connection terminal!
- Install putty
- Open putty and set the COM port to the one you see in “Device Manager”
- Enter the COM port (mine is COM3), Change connection type to “Serial”, and set the speed to
115200
After you click open you will likely see an entirely blank prompt. Done be discouraged because your ODroid is waiting for input.
Simply type in your username and password and you should be logged in The default user / pass is odroid / odroid
Take off!
We have a serial connection to our ODroid. You only need to login once per boot as well :)
