AnywhereUSB Plus Linux and Mobile Support

Preface: The AnywhereUSB Plus client software is known as the AnywhereUSB Manager.

AnywhereUSB Plus products do not have a mobile version of the client (iOS or Android).

AnywhereUSB Plus products do support Linux as detailed within the Linux version of the Managers Release notes (Select Linux then “release notes”):

https://hub.digi.com/support/products/infrastructure-management/digi-anywhereusb-8-plus/?path=/support/asset-collection/anywhere-usb-plus-ez-os-specific-drivers/

Notably at the time of this articles publication are these Linux requirements:

The Kernel must be >=4.13.x

Only the eight and two port AnywhereUSB Plus models are officially supported for reasons detailed here:

https://www.digi.com/support/knowledge-base/digi-anywhereusb%C2%AE-24-plus-linux-limitations

Not officially headless or Wayland supporting, requiring use of X.org on a display possessing machine. There is workaround for this detailed at the article here which makes use of X virtual framebuffer (Xvfb):

https://www.digi.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-run-anywhereusb-manager-on-linux-without-gu

Example of simplified client-hub relationship:

Key: Black is the physical layer, green is the logical layer/components.