Press A to setup you USB to Serial device dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port /dev/tty.usbserial-1440 Get address of your USB to Serial adapter: ls /dev/tty.* For example, on a PowerBook G4 it came up as /dev/tty.usbserial-FTALKY8I. Install the " Virtual COM Port" driver and look for the proper TTY name in /dev. Many USB-Serial adapters use the chip from FTDI. Launchable app - use this older hint to find the right command line Minicom, you could still use the AppleScript to wrap it into a nice Interactive Unix App in Cocoa, that would be the next step - it wouldīe nice to do this without involving Terminal.
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man screen will show you further commands to Session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the If youįail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen So typeĬontrol-A followed by Control-\ to exit your screen session. Screen uses Control-A to take commands directed to it. Something other than the Keyspan Serial Adapter (do an ls tty* of the The screen command with a different device name if you are using May want to customize this slightly - you can change the screenĬolors or number of columns or rows. Set custom title of window 1 to "SerialOut"Ĭompile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have aĭouble-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session. Set normal text color of window 1 to "green" Set background color of window 1 to "black" Solution: Use screen,įirst, launch Script Editor and type/paste in the following code: tell application "Terminal"ĭo script with command "screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1" Of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex. The developerĭoesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. In five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. Themselves: ZTerm is a horrible Mac OS X app. I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a I love using for connecting to serial consoles, i.e. You can use the terminal command screen to do this!!!
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