# Cant get serialport to work

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serialport-to-work/6719>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [12 January 2019 14:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serialport-to-work/6719 "2019-01-12T14:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChuckBanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/chuckbanger/32/5122_2.png) [@ChuckBanger](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ChuckBanger)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2019 12:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-get-serialport-to-work/6719/11 "2019-01-13T12:56:31Z")

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I solved it. It's a litle embarrassing. But i run this `chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0` so it was an access thing. I thought I've done that but clearly no. Thanks for the help 😀

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