QNAP

So, this was a lot harder than it really should have been, especially because rtl_433 is a bit thingie about where the device appears in the /dev/ file system as an added sting in the tail... In my specific scenario, I was given a Vevor 7-in-1 wireless weather station for Christmas. They seem fairly solid and full featured for a $130 AUD device, so no complaints there. The device is also natively supported by rtl_433 which is a RTL SDR package, although its not supported in the version shipped by Debian 12. That's awesome, although it would have been nice if the command line to use was documented better. I'll talk more about those bits in a later post though. In this one I want to focus on the fun I had getting a USB device reliably passed through to a Docker container on my QNAP NAS. First off, I am using a Realtek USB TV tuner for rtl_433, which appears like this one the NAS: $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Specifically…