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Add an additional note to README.md
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ryanbinns authored Jul 9, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ to the USB devices is called `usb` as above, then the parameter will need to
be `--runas fred:usb`, otherwise there will be permissions errors trying to
communicate with the watch. Note that in this case `fred` will also need to
be a member of the `usb` group, otherwise there will be permissions errors also.
Note when starting the daemon with the `--runas` parameter the home directory used
as the default activity store location `~/ttwatch` is still the home of the root
user who is starting the daemon and not the home of the user running the daemon.
In this case the activity store location must be specified on the command line
or in the configuration file `/etc/ttwatch.conf` pointing to a location where the
unprivileged user has write access.

Note: The daemon is not supported under FreeBSD as the FreeBSD version of
libusb does not support hot-plug detection and causes compilation
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