Many thanks to all. The problem has been fixed with a new driver. It was only after threatening to return the device that I got some action from the supplier on this. Regards and thanks again.
Barry On 30/08/2012, at 1:45 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: > 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> -- 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>
