On a Raspberry Pi I configured to act as a gateway, the mbusd@ttyUSB0 service ended up starting way too early in the boot process, before the device was available.

I ran systemctl edit mbusd@ttyUSB0 and added this:

$ cat /etc/systemd/system/mbusd@.service.d/override.conf [Unit] Requires=dev-ttyUSB0.device After=dev-ttyUSB0.device 

Now it correctly waits until the device is available.

I think this would be a good addition to the systemd service, since it's already parametrized.