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

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AHA!! What looks like xml data! every 6ish seconds!

right - now to try and find a way to do something productive with
it!!! :-O

Interestingly - this was without the drivers off of the web, looks
like the mac knows about it 'out of the box' - thinking about it, I've
got an 'Art Lebedev Mini3' that I set up the other day and I think
they use the Prolific usb chips... so maybe it had the drivers from
that. (I've just plugged the mini 3 in and get a tty.usbserial5 as an
extra dev)

Anyways - I've just found that the apple has a scripting language
built in that may be able to do something with the usb.....

Off to google a bit more...


(dropped to 939 - dish washer has stopped!)
Cheers all!
Wayne.




On 19 Feb 2009, at 21:01, Alex Monaghan wrote:

> Mine reads at 57600 if that's any help
>
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> Wayne
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> Subject: [ukha_d] Getting data out of 'CurrentCosts' with on a Mac.
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> 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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