Fldigi Rig Control on Mac OS X

Discussion:

twoweims43

2012-01-29 04:13:21 UTC

I am using an RT Systems USB-63 cable to control my FT-950 using Ham Radio Deluxe in a Parallels VM on Windows 7 (So I know the Cable is good).

If i try to set up fldigi rig control in the OS X version of fldigi (3.21.37) I do not see the USB-63 cable as a choice of serial ports. It appears that OS X does not create a /dev/tty.... device.

My signaling USB communicates with fldigi just fine.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

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Dave Wright

2012-01-29 04:18:00 UTC

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1st quick question would be: Did you install any OS X drivers that may be
required?

Dave
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Post by twoweims43
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I am using an RT Systems USB-63 cable to control my FT-950 using Ham Radio
Deluxe in a Parallels VM on Windows 7 (So I know the Cable is good).
If i try to set up fldigi rig control in the OS X version of fldigi
(3.21.37) I do not see the USB-63 cable as a choice of serial ports. It
appears that OS X does not create a /dev/tty.... device.
My signaling USB communicates with fldigi just fine.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

Dick Kriss

2012-01-29 12:17:42 UTC

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Fldigi Rig Control on Mac OS X
Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:13 pm (PST)
I am using an RT Systems USB-63 cable to control my FT-950 using Ham Radio Deluxe in a Parallels VM on Windows 7 (So I know the Cable is good).
If i try to set up fldigi rig control in the OS X version of fldigi (3.21.37) I do not see the USB-63 cable as a choice of serial ports. It appears that OS X does not create a /dev/tty.... device.
My signaling USB communicates with fldigi just fine.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

I do not know anything about a USB-63 cable, HRD or Windows 7. Why are you trying to run PC software on a Mac under VM when fldigi is native to OS X.

From your description you may need a driver. Get one here

http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx

I use the Mac OS X version and it works great. I have no idea what you need for Windows 7 running under VM on a Mac.

Dick AA5VU

twoweims43

2012-01-29 15:58:47 UTC

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Thanks Dick,

I am not running Fldigi on windows. I just included that bit of information to prove that the cable is good.

I have the SI Labs drivers installed (They are working with my weather station).

Post by Dick Kriss

I do not know anything about a USB-63 cable, HRD or Windows 7. Why are you trying to run PC software on a Mac under VM when fldigi is native to OS X.
From your description you may need a driver. Get one here
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx
I use the Mac OS X version and it works great. I have no idea what you need for Windows 7 running under VM on a Mac.
Dick AA5VU

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David A. Ranch

2012-01-29 17:08:08 UTC

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RT-System's cables seem to use FTDI chipsets but they reprogram the
Vendor and Product IDs so even Linux don't automatically detect them as
a serial device. I don't know if OSX supports something like this but
this is what I do for Linux

/etc/modprobe.d/usbserial.conf
--
#RT Systems CT-62B 1-port USB to serial adapter for FT817/857/897
(FTDI-based)
options ftdi_sio vendor=0x2100 product=0x9e56
--

There are other Udev tricks to make everything happen automatically but
this thread isn't about Linux. ;-)

--David

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Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:13 pm (PST)
I am using an RT Systems USB-63 cable to control my FT-950 using Ham
Radio Deluxe in a Parallels VM on Windows 7 (So I know the Cable is
good).
If i try to set up fldigi rig control in the OS X version of fldigi
(3.21.37) I do not see the USB-63 cable as a choice of serial ports.
It appears that OS X does not create a /dev/tty.... device.
My signaling USB communicates with fldigi just fine.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

I do not know anything about a USB-63 cable, HRD or Windows 7. Why
are you trying to run PC software on a Mac under VM when fldigi is
native to OS X.
From your description you may need a driver. Get one here
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx
I use the Mac OS X version and it works great. I have no idea what you
need for Windows 7 running under VM on a Mac.
Dick AA5VU

walscobry

2012-01-29 20:52:35 UTC

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If you look thru the /dev/ list you should see the adapter as some other name like "cu.serial.cuda.1" or something odd like that. My keyspan adapter is labeled "/dev/cu.KeyUSA19181.1".

Hope that helps.

Bryan
K4RKR

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twoweims43

2012-02-02 00:15:29 UTC

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RT Systems sent me the driver and it worked.
Why they don't just post it on their web site for downloading remains a mystery...

Post by twoweims43
I am using an RT Systems USB-63 cable to control my FT-950 using Ham Radio Deluxe in a Parallels VM on Windows 7 (So I know the Cable is good).
If i try to set up fldigi rig control in the OS X version of fldigi (3.21.37) I do not see the USB-63 cable as a choice of serial ports. It appears that OS X does not create a /dev/tty.... device.
My signaling USB communicates with fldigi just fine.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

w1hkj

2012-02-02 00:22:01 UTC

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Post by twoweims43
RT Systems sent me the driver and it worked.
Why they don't just post it on their web site for downloading remains a mystery...

Now download the program flrig and use it with fldigi. flrig provides a
very robust CAT interface to the FT-950. The program author owns an
FT-950 and at least two other developers are actively improving the
flrig->ft950 interface.

Dave

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twoweims43

2012-02-02 00:27:44 UTC

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Got it. And it also works.

Thanks

Post by w1hkj

Post by twoweims43
RT Systems sent me the driver and it worked.
Why they don't just post it on their web site for downloading remains a mystery...