Why not just look at the P3 display? Don't you need that to have the P3 SVGA? I don't have a P3. What about using a Softrock Lite IF to a USB sound card on the Macbook Air? The Softrock Lite is about $22 but you have to build it. You could also get a LP-Pan2, but you already have the P3 so you may not want to do that. A quick google search turned up this:http://www.epiphan.com/products/frame-grabbers/vga2usb/ It is $299 list price, but there should be other less expensive vga-to-usb devices that can be used on a Mac. Hope that gives you a place to start. Although I may not be understanding what you are asking al. I do have a Softrock light IF to a sound card on my Windows PC. I have not tried it to my Macbook Pro, but that is a company machine. Tom - wa4ta
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:15:43 +0000 > Subject: [Elecraft] Update on a Question About the P3 SVGA and Mac Computers > > A week or two ago I posted this question: Would it be possible to have > the P3's SVGA output displayed on the screen of a MacAir computer, and > have a logging program resident on the same computer, and be able to > toggle between the two with a simple computer keyboard stroke? Neat trick > for contesting if there's no room for dual monitors, eh? > > The simple answer (but see below) turns out to be no - with some dongling > older Macs could operate as "dumb" monitors but newer ones (like my > MacAir) cannot, a fact I had confirmed by a tech at the local Apple store. > I was told that only the 27" monitor (too big for my space) might be able > to do that, and maybe it couldn't either. > > I was referred by a member of this reflector (thank you) to a > computer-consultant friend of his, from whom I learned that there was no > direct way to do it but that it could be done if the P3's SVGA output > could be made into the electronic equivalent of an Internet web site. > Moreover, he said, that should be possible using something called > "Raspberry Pi." > > Right. For an EE or computer expert, maybe; but not for a Liberal Arts > sort of guy. Even my Internet research about "Raspberry Pi" was > entertaining but incomprehensible. But that aside, does anyone know of a > way to feed the P3 output into a server sort of thing and have it come out > as something that will fool the MacAir into thinking it's a web site, > hence toggleable vis-a-vis the resident logging program? > > If it turns out to be patentable I'm willing to share the royalties . . . > > Ted, KN1CBR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
