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I'm not familiar with the LMS500, but if the protocol is the same as the LMS200, (just the physical interface is different) then you might be able to solve the problem by redirecting the serial data to ethernet. Netcat is good for this sort of thing: E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484740/converting-serial-port-data-to-tcp-ip-in-a-linux-environment

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