FAQ » StickMover under OSX

I have a stickmover, that works well under OSX with the Avirem software, but i cannot get it to run under neXt in OSX. I have gone to the settings and 'stickmover on' with the stickmover plugged in on starting the application. I am running OSX 10.13.6 and version 1.520 of neXt (from the AppStore).

Any suggestions please? :)

I have turned off bluetooth on my iMac and then started neXt up. Still no luck. I know it is on cu.usbserial-DN2EA3JH

Can I manually add it to the prefs.ini file or wherever it is stored?

Thank you for the quick reply. Sorry yes I do have the tty.

iMac27:dev alastaircormack$ ls tty.us*
tty.usbserial-DN2EA3JH
iMac27:dev alastaircormack$ ls cu.us*
cu.usbserial-DN2EA3JH

if I run an app that enumerates all serial ports such as arduino studio. It lists the standards OSX bluetooth port(you can't delete this): cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port and the stickmover on cu.usbserial-DN2EA3JH

Cheers,
Alastair

I only have one tty with that name pattern (I have done a * after the tty below):
iMac27:~ alastaircormack$ ls /dev/tty.*
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port /dev/tty.usbserial-DN2EA3JH

I can use the screen command to attach to the port. eg:
screen /dev/tty.usbserial-DN2EA3JH 9600
It display nothing as I assume I have the wrong serial speed or you need to send something to make it stream anything back. But it does not say it is locked or anything

Not sure what is causing neXt not to work then but AVIRem works with no problem.

Thats kind of what I had to do to make it work with AVIRem as I had the standard chipset provided FTDI driver that worked with arduino studio but did not work well with AVIRem. So I removed all the 3rd party FTDI pieces. If only it was as simple as deleting the kernel extension! I now only have the apple FTDI kernel extension running.

Other thought is that I have a version from the AppStore.. would Apple sandbox it so that serial port access was disabled? I've alway done development locally and never put on app store.. so don't know if Apple messes with the binaries.

Sorry to be a pain! Thank you for your help. I might just buy the non AppStore version and run in the WindowsVM.

After plugging in the StickMover I ran:
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI
AVIRem stopped working
then running: sudo kextload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI
to reload the FTDI driver. AVIRem world again. So the FTDI driver is needed for me with my Stickmover (I have no other serial drivers running).

But now for the good news!! The Download from your website worked! Very strange the Appstore version does not work but the download does.

Looks like I need to buy the licence from you :) Thanks again for the help.

No problem. Glad I could help. Really wanted to get it working as my son is still on school holidays at the moment and thought it would be a good tool to get him flying. Hopefully you can get something up soon :)

Thanks for making a great sim!!

Cheers,
Alastair