Lately I’ve been having issues where my CAT commands from Omnirig would time-out or vice-versa. (Notably the dreaded “Rig is not responding”) I had been looking high and low why or who was to blame. Factory resetting didn’t change a thing, nor did changing the serial cable. The settings in Omnirig didn’t matter – nor did serial speed. Hmm, maybe RFI is to blame? – Nope.
Turns out – the issue is in the driver for the CP210x dongle! If you use the latest version (at the time of writing – v6.7.5) then you’ll experience these mishaps. (I’m betting other rigs using this chipset will be affected too!).