In order for NetHome to be able to communicate with the Tellstick transceiver, you must install drivers that make the Tellstick appear as an COM-port. These drivers are available from FTDI, but since the Tellstick device has its own product id, we must modify the installation files a bit so it also accepts this id as a serial port. Unfortunately this small change breaks the signing of the drivers which makes the installation a bit more messy. The instructions below are for Windows 7, but should work for all versions of Windows.

The modified drivers are available in the NetHome-release under the drivers\windows\FTDI_VCP-folder.

1. Insert the Tellstick in an USB-port. After a while Windows will complain that it could not find the drivers.
2. Open the device manager window. This can be done for example by typing “mmc devmgmt.msc” in the search field in the start menu: