Brandy, Actually, I wasn’t planning to do anything with the Serial app and comms to the K3. My questions stem from the fact that I have used Serial with a number of other devices (mostly Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and PIC boards) so I thought: try it out with the K3. My failure to get a response is what prompted my question.
Not sure I will find anything amiss from your suggestions (already having done one or two of those types of checks) but I will try again. Now, it is a mere curiosity thing — this should work. I have successfully communicated with Elecraft serial equipment using my own serial-comms programs I have written (C and Python). Ordinarily of course, I use only the Elecraft utilities to do anything useful. 73, phil, K7PEH > On May 6, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Bayard Coolidge, N1HO <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not sure what you're planning to do with "Serial" but when I'm using my > K3/KIO3B with > WSJT-X, I have the program configured for CAT Control on > /dev/cu.usbserial-A5xxxxx at a > Baud rate of 38400, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, Handshake set to 'None', and PTT > Method of RTS > (set to the same /dev/cu.usbserial device), Mode Data/Pkt, Split 'Rig', and a > 1 second Poll Interval. > CONFIG:KIO3B is set to 'nor'. > > Permissions for the port device file are set to 666 and owner/group is > root/wheel. > > You might also want to double-check About My Mac -> System Report -> Hardware > -> USB > to see if the K3 is showing up - mine is a 'General Purpose USB Hub' with a > TI vendor ID > which has a USB Audio Codec (Burr-Brown) and an FT232R USB UART whose serial > number > matches the device special file that WSJT-X is talking to. > > Also, go to System Preferences -> Network and make sure that that port is not > configured. > (It most likely is not, but Murphy does very strange things at times!) > > It wouldn't surprise me if Serial might have a permission problem/setting > that's fouling you up, > but that's just a SWAG on my part. I'm running Lady Heather through another > USB line to my > GPSDO without any fiddling on the macOS side, but you never know. > > HTH and 73, > > Brandy, N1HO > Mid-2017 5k 27" iMac, early-2015 13" Retina MBPro > > On Sunday, May 6, 2018, 2:48:28 PM EDT, Phil Hystad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > One of the very popular serial communications programs available in the Apple > Mac store is an application called “Serial”. What makes this app nice to use > is that it includes built-in driver interfaces for just about any USB-Serial > or serial interface you could put on a Mac computer. > > I decided to connect to my K3 using Serial. But, I am having trouble getting > the K3 to respond. I know I have the right comm port and I know that the K3 > can communicate over this comm port. > > Has anyone used Serial (the app from company Decisive Tactics, Inc.) to > communicate with a K3 or any other Elecraft equipment? > > 73, phil, K7PEH > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
