Serial Ports and RR

[David Vaughan]

Bill
No.
It is not actually a branded KeySpan (there were none in town) but 
another which proves not to have OS X drivers, although I now have it 
working in the Classic (9.2) environment. Still, I don't want to have to 
build a Classic app just for this purpose.

Earlier today in this mail list Kevin promised OS X access to the serial 
(USB) port - "we're working on it and it shouldn't be long..." so I 
guess I'm holding my breath a bit. I have also e-mailed the manufacturer 
of my converter to ask them for OS X drivers.

regards
David

On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 05:44 , Bill Vlahos wrote:

> Gene,
>
> Have you been able to use the KeySpan USB to Serial adapter under OS X 
> yet?
>
> Bill Vlahos
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 08:36  AM, Gene Kennedy wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Yes it is possible to use RR to control/communicate with devices over 
>> serial porst
>> using a USB-only Mac.  You need to buy a KeySpan USB to Serial adapter 
>> (or some
>> other competing device).  If you buy a new one you can configure the 
>> adapter to
>> emulate both the "Printer" and Modem" ports which are then accessable  
>> through RR.
>> If you buy an older version of the adapter (through ebay or some such 
>> outlet) you
>> can will be able to access the printer port but probably not the modem 
>> port.
>> KeySpan's drivers were updated along the way to provide modem port 
>> emulation.  I
>> have not tried an adapter with the X-10 software yet but, I do have a 
>> number of RR
>> applications running 24/7 using serial communications via KeySpan 
>> adapters.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Gene Kennedy
>>
>>
>>
>>> Message: 7
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:24:10 +1100
>>> Subject: Read serial data?
>>> From: David Vaughan <drvaughan55 at mac.com>
>>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>>
>>> Is it possible to read serial data on a Mac with USB ports? In the
>>> Transcript dictionary it refers only to reading Modem and Printer 
>>> ports
>>> which are the old Serial/LocalTalk ports, and I am wondering if these
>>> commands will transpose to reading from the USB or if there is another
>>> command or technique.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> David Vaughan
>>
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