What is the device name on MacOS for ve.Direct to USB cable

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masterov asked May 5, '20

What is the device name on MacOS for ve.Direct to USB cable

If you have a VE.Direct to USB cable and a Mac, could you please type 'sudo dmesg' after plugging the cable into the USB, and tell me what device name it gets. It should be something like "/dev/cu.usbserial"

An extra [optional] question: Does VictronConnect App see the device that you use to connect this cable with.

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Answer 1 · 2020-05-06T12:31:09Z

wkirby answered · May 06, 2020 at 12:31 PM

If I do sudo dmesg right after attaching the cable, then I get:

In /dev I have this:

If I look for USB devices in "System Information", then it shows up as VE Direct cable.

VictronConnect sees the device via the cable.

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masterov commented · May 06, 2020 at 04:08 PM

Awesome! Thanks!

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masterov commented · May 06, 2020 at 04:26 PM

Could you please tell me what you see when you issue the following command?

cat /dev/tty.usbserial-VE28INOF

Thanks!

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wkirby ♦♦ masterov commented · May 06, 2020 at 07:28 PM

Sorry, that returns an empty file.
I tried stty -f /dev/tty.usbserial-VE28INOF 19200 but still an empty file with cat.

I tried cat /dev/ttyUSB1 (after seting baud to 19200) on an Ubuntu machine and this returns the expected data every 1 second.

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masterov wkirby ♦♦ commented · May 06, 2020 at 08:10 PM

Thank you! I guess something is different on the mac.

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