Doesn't reconnect when specified serial port is a symlink (Linux)

[aerickt]

With newer versions of Plover, the default serial ports available are of the form /dev/serial/by-id/... which are symlinked to /dev/ttyACMX.

When the selected port is one of these symlinks (for me I have /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Noll_Electronics_LLC_Nolltronics_Multisteno-if03), the plugin does not detect when the file exists again. plover -l debug continues to output the following message even after the device has been plugged back in:

plover-auto-reconnect-machine: machine can not be reconnected, retrying later

Changing the following line:

plover_auto_reconnect_machine/plover_auto_reconnect_machine.py

Line 43 in 84f8d74

if isinstance(self._engine._machine, SerialStenotypeBase) and not self._port_exists(self._engine._machine.serial_params['port']):

to:

if isinstance(self._engine._machine, SerialStenotypeBase) and not exists(self._engine._machine.serial_params['port']):

seems to fix this problem I am having. exists is from os.path.

[SquidmasterIII]

I also have this problem, however this change to line 43 didn't work for me. Does anyone else know how to fix this?

[gfixler]

I have a pull request open that may fix this.

#6