Try going to Silicon Labs and downloading the CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP Driver. Then look for that when you launch WeatherLink.
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Page ... ivers.aspx Once you get WeatherLink up and running, you might, that you are not enamoured with the product. Most Mac users have switched to other Mac weather applications, such as WeatherSnoop <http://www.weathersnoop.com/home/> or WeatherCat <http://trixology.com> Cheers, Ronni On 30/08/2012, at 1:45 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > Hi Ronni > > The program is Weather Link for Mac. > Unfortunately in the dropbox for communication setup there is only > "Bluetooth-PDA-sync", it is the SLAB_USBtoUART I need but don't know how to > get/set it to show. > > Regards > > Barry > > > On 30/08/2012, at 1:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Barry, >> >> What is the Program? >> Is this the 'Weather Display for Mac'? If so it should have something >> similar to this: >> In WeatherDisplay / control Panel / COM Port There's a USB to Serial name >> box set to /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.4 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> On 30/08/2012, at 12:58 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> >> wrote: >> >>> G'Day All >>> >>> I am investigating a program which collects and displays weather data from >>> a weather station. The supplier says that the connection needs to be >>> through a "UART" USB Port and not a "Bluetooth"port as he seems to think >>> mine are. He says that in the "other" operating system it is possible to >>> change a port using the control panel but he has no idea about doing this >>> with a Mac. >>> Does anyone have any ideas how I can change the properties of a USB port or >>> am I stuck with the Bluetooth system? >>> I can run the connection on an earlier Mac running 10.5 but not on this one >>> running 10.7 >>> Is this something lost with Lion as was the Rosetta capability? >>> >>> Thanks for any advice. >>> >>> Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
