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

[Quinten Uijldert <yahoogroups2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seems like a "Dummies" guide to the command line would be
helpful ;)

If I'm not mistaken, you'll have perl installed by default, right?
Have a look at the following post on my blog:
http://awooga.nl/current-cost-classic-vs-cc128
and amend the line

$port = "/dev/currentcost";

to read

$port = "/dev/tty.usbserial";

and run it as follows:

$ perl <scriptname.pl>

Should give you a starting point at least :)

Q.

2009/2/19 Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxx>:
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Wayne
>> Sent: 19 February 2009 20:27
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ukha_d] Getting data out of 'CurrentCosts' with on a
Mac.
>>
>> 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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