In a previous blog I covered the use of the FTDI D2XX driver on a Windows 10 IoT Core Raspberry PI 2. This covered a missing plank from the Win10RPI2 armour that was much called for. It facilitates the use of USB-Serial devices based upon the  FTDI chipset of which there are many. Jark took an idea I had to use the FTDI ARM Windows RT D2XX driver for the RT Surface 1 & 2 and created a comprehensive Universal Windows App that used the driver. His GitHub project contains complete instructions to install the driver on a RPI2. This project is though an App.  What about a using it in a Startup Task on a headless RPI2? A blocking issue has arisen.

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