Hi Ronni The program is Weather Link for Mac. Unfortunately in the dropbox for communication setup there is only "Bluetooth-PDA-sync", it is the SLAB_USBtoUART I need but don't know how to get/set it to show.
Regards Barry On 30/08/2012, at 1:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Barry, > > What is the Program? > Is this the 'Weather Display for Mac'? If so it should have something similar > to this: > In WeatherDisplay / control Panel / COM Port There's a USB to Serial name > box set to /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.4 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > On 30/08/2012, at 12:58 PM, Barry Sexstone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> G'Day All >> >> I am investigating a program which collects and displays weather data from a >> weather station. The supplier says that the connection needs to be through >> a "UART" USB Port and not a "Bluetooth"port as he seems to think mine are. >> He says that in the "other" operating system it is possible to change a port >> using the control panel but he has no idea about doing this with a Mac. >> Does anyone have any ideas how I can change the properties of a USB port or >> am I stuck with the Bluetooth system? >> I can run the connection on an earlier Mac running 10.5 but not on this one >> running 10.7 >> Is this something lost with Lion as was the Rosetta capability? >> >> Thanks for any advice. >> >> Barry > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
