Is it possible to create a serial connector that will interface with a device connected by USB to the dataminer server?
Some devices use a USB to serial adapter internally. In that case the connected PC indeed adds a COM port for that adapter. So if the device is directly connected to a DMA server, DataMiner will be able to communicate with that device.
If however the USB device does not have a serial adapter it will not be possible to communicate with that device directly.
In that case a layer in between is needed, some bridging code is needed.
On one side you'll have code to communicate with the device over the correct drivers, and on the other side you can expose an API that DataMiner can reach.
Preferably the manufacturer makes that available to us of course so that DataMiner can connect to an API on a server that has that device connected to it.
It’s indeed a USB device and sadly enough there is no decent documentation or API to use from the manufacturer. There are some 3th party APIs available from reverse engineering the communication