Heh, I thought this post died a silent death ;) Thanks for the reply, Rick. But each of your answers has that "Windows" word in it. I don't currently own a Windows machine, and I don't want to. Yes, I have had to run a Windows VM for certain tasks because that's the only option (K3 Utility, etc.) And I will say that VMWare for MAC has come a long way, and you can get almost hardware speeds running Windows VMs on a MAC. But I don't have any desire to run the Windows OS. And worse, there are known issues running hardware devices like multiple USB serial ports using a Virtual Machine. I want to use my MACs natively.
MacLoggerDX is excellent for anyone who hasn't looked lately. And the support is awesome. Heck, I'd port the utilities to OS X myself if I could get access to the source code. I'd put it up on github for all to contribute. I'm a big fan of open source. 73 de K1AY Chris On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Rick Tavan <r...@tavan.com> wrote: > KAT500 Remote and KPA500 Remote are excellent control programs. There are > three ways to access them remotely: > > 1. Run them on a Windows machine at the radio site and access them via > a remote desktop app such as Chrome Remote Desktop which runs natively on > either Windows or Mac. The Windows machine at the radio site can be very > inexpensive and, since it isn't used for general computing, can be very > reliable. I do this sometimes and it works fine. My Windows server is an > Intel NUC that's sized about 4"x4"x2". You can find cheaper, though. > 2. Run them as server apps on a Windows machine at the radio site and > access them from a Windows machine running the same apps as clients. I do > this most of the time and it works great. I do it from both a "real" > Windows machine and from a virtual Windows machine running under VMware > Fusion on a MacBook Pro. But beware that, although Fusion on the Mac can be > made to work, it's a complex environment. I needed three professionals to > help me get it working, including two on the Fusion team at VMware! (It was > my son, who doesn't work at VMware, who finally figured out a fatal > trackpad driver problem.) > 3. Run them on a local Windows machine or virtual Windows OS at the > control site with remote serial ports at the radio site. This is the > minimal hardware solution but it does require Fusion with the same caveat > as above. > > Remote control is a lot of fun if you can enjoy or at least tolerate the > system integration! > > 73, > > /Rick N6XI > > > Rick Tavan > Truckee, CA > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Chris Hallinan <challi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Any solutions for MAC out there? >> >> http://www.elecraft.com/k2_remote.htm#k3remote >> >> I use MacLoggerDX for logging and basic rig parameter feedback for the log >> and I love it. But I need a good remote solution on the KAT500, KPA500 >> and >> yeah, my K3. >> >> 73 de K1AY >> Chris >> >> -- >> Life is like Linux - it never stands still. >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to rta...@gmail.com >> > > -- Life is like Linux - it never stands still. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com