Re: Getting data out of 'CurrentCosts' with on a Mac.

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stuart,
I must admit, no, but the reason behind that was that I can see from
the mac 'system profiler' that there is a prolific usb device being
plugged into one of the usb ports. Also from a terminal prompt if I do
a 'ls /dev/tty.*' I can see that /dev/tty.usbserial appears and
disappears as I plug and unplug the serial cable - I assumed from that
that the mac is using its own drivers for it.

I'll grab the mac one and have a look.

Cheers
Wayne.


On 19 Feb 2009, at 20:30, Stuart Poulton wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> Have you installed any drivers for the USB -> serial convertor.
> Try
>
> http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31
>
> Regards
>
> Stuart
>
> On 19 Feb 2009, at 20:27, Wayne wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm jumping in at the deep end here and having a pop at trying to
get
>> data out of my brand new 'current costs' unit and to make things a
>> little more of a challenge, I'm doing on me (borrowed) mac!
>>
>> So far, from what I've read on google, a 'quick' method seems to
be
>> to
>> use the 'screen' command at a terminal screen, 'screen /dev/
>> tty.usbserial 9600' but thats erroring out and not displaying
>> anything.
>>
>> I've guessed at a few baud rates but each come back with the same
>> error 'could not find a pty' ;-o -
>>
>>
>> ok maybe a bit too tech for the general list - but the short
version,
>> has anyone got any code snippets they dont mind sharing (if its
mac
>> based all the better :))
>>
>> I'll shut up now :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Wayne.
>> (Currently on 2.89 kwatt!! - (no pun intended!))
>>
>>
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