[Ham-Mac] Renaming USBtoUART ID's

[Dino Papas]

Hi Alan - Yes, I am using the OSX side of the computer to control the radio.  I have a native install of Windows 8.1 on one of the other hard drives in the Pro and also can do Windows via Fusion.

I installed the Davis software natively on the Windows drive, installed the Davis Windows version of WeatherLink and connected the console via one of the USB hubs external to the Pro.  So the native installation works fine and I did not have the two OS’s running concurrently.

Meanwhile back in the Mac world after having done the above I found that when I turned the radio THEN the programs weren’t seeing it because with the WX station still plugged in the USB ID began enumerating for the radio connection.

Once I unplugged the WX station the situation returned to normal.  So the question is can the devices themselves be flashed to have a unique ID so either OS will see two different devices and thus no conflict.

BTW, the Davis Mac version of WeatherLink isn’t very good as your friend discovered.

Hope this clears up any confusion with understanding my situation.

Dino KL0S

On Apr062015, at 0949 AM, Alan Bomberger <ae7tu at waldenpond.com> wrote:

> It is unclear from your message if you are using the Mac OS X side for
> fldigi, etc to run the 7600.  If so I might suggest that you have a
> conflict with the two Operating systems and the USBtoUART bridge.
> I don't play the bootcamp game but I do know that a friend has the
> Davic Weather station hooked up to his Mac so better behavior might
> be achieved.   Asside:  Support for the Mac from Davis is non-existant
> but the software does work.
> 
> 
> 
>> It took several hours last night, and much help from friend Chuck AI4WU, for me to figure out why every time I power cycle my Icom 7600 that programs like fldigi, flrig, Aether and others were no longer recognizing the USB path to the radio without manually reselecting the connection path.  Long story short I found the culprit to be my repositioned Davis Weather console, recently moved from my XP PC to the Bootcamp Windows 8.1 side of my Mac, as it was continuously plugged in and had "hijacked" the port ID:
>> 
>> /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART
>> 
>> and that the USB path used to connect to the radio would then be assigned the enumeration:
>> 
>> /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUARTXX
>> 
>> where XX was a incrementing number that increased by one digit with each radio power cycle - problem is that the programs still thought that XX minus one was the path to take.  The I/O is a Silicon Laboratories USB to UART device for both the weather station and the radio.
>> 
>> Now, unplugging the WX station is a fix since simply plugging it in to download WX data from the console infrequently w/o the radio turned on isn't a big deal.  But does anyone know of a way to reassign the IDs permanently somehow so they don't "conflict" with each other causing the incrementing enumeration issue for one of the devices?  I have found some stuff on how to do that with FTDI serial devices - of course mucking around there is pretty scary as you could end up bricking a device if you're not careful.  BTW, here's the link to the FTDI utility I found:
>> 
>> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/01/27/pirate-rename-get-a-nicely-named-serial-device/
>> 
>> Anybody else had this problem USB/UART I/O and found a fix?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> 73 - Dino KL0S
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