I have a project where I am using a PICAXE controller to control water heating at solar thermal hot water systems. Things are going well and I am using the controller for monitoring as well - by outputting data every few mins to an Excel spreadsheet. I have several installations and I use whatever old laptop I can get to do the data logging in excel. So far they have all used windows.
At my latest place, the owner has a spare Mac laptop. It's modern and runs OS X 10.8.3. I have not been able to get AXE027 installed. It all seems fine but then I can't see the file
/dev/tty.usbserial-xxxxxxx
(There were about four /dev/tty.* files listed)
I did the instructions in "5.1) Trouble shooting" but no joy. I did notice later that the file
/system/library/extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
was not present, so perhaps the chgrp command may have been ineffective. Could the problem be that I downloaded the installation software from my windows PC and then transferred it to the Mac with a USB stick? I initially unzipped (using the mac) onto the stick and ran it from there, later I repeated from the hard disk.
Note - this is the first time I have ever encountered a mac, so perhaps I have done something silly. (I did manage to login as root to troubleshoot, which I was very proud to achieve)
I don't need to program the PICAXE with the Mac but I do need to establish the connection, so I assume the MacAXEPad is the way to go. However, I also need the PLX-DAQ software to set up the excel monitoring. I cannot find it online in a Mac format. So shall I abandon the whole Mac enterprise and try to source another old windows laptop? Or is there an alternative to PLX-DAQ?
At my latest place, the owner has a spare Mac laptop. It's modern and runs OS X 10.8.3. I have not been able to get AXE027 installed. It all seems fine but then I can't see the file
/dev/tty.usbserial-xxxxxxx
(There were about four /dev/tty.* files listed)
I did the instructions in "5.1) Trouble shooting" but no joy. I did notice later that the file
/system/library/extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
was not present, so perhaps the chgrp command may have been ineffective. Could the problem be that I downloaded the installation software from my windows PC and then transferred it to the Mac with a USB stick? I initially unzipped (using the mac) onto the stick and ran it from there, later I repeated from the hard disk.
Note - this is the first time I have ever encountered a mac, so perhaps I have done something silly. (I did manage to login as root to troubleshoot, which I was very proud to achieve)
I don't need to program the PICAXE with the Mac but I do need to establish the connection, so I assume the MacAXEPad is the way to go. However, I also need the PLX-DAQ software to set up the excel monitoring. I cannot find it online in a Mac format. So shall I abandon the whole Mac enterprise and try to source another old windows laptop? Or is there an alternative to PLX-DAQ?
