jpilot

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 16, 2014, at 21:24, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jan 16, 2014, at 21:09, Lenore Horner <LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:20, John Ruschmeyer <jruschme at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I think you want /dev/pilot to be a symbolic link to the device for your serial port. Something like:
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>>> # ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot
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>> Doesn’t that mean I should have /dev/ttyUSB1 already?  I don’t.
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> I don’t either.

From the jpilot documentation:

http://www.jpilot.org/docs/manual.html

> Serial Port Setup
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> When syncing, J-Pilot uses the port and speed settings out of the J-Pilot preferences screen.  If the port is blank then J-Pilot will use the PILOTPORT environment variables, as does pilot-link.  If these are blank also then J-Pilot will default to /dev/pilot.
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> It is recommended, but not necessary to make a link from /dev/pilot to the correct serial port.  So, if your cradle is on COM1, this is /dev/ttyS0 under Linux.  You could execute the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot".  COM2 is /dev/ttyS1, and so on.  The Linux serial ports cua[n] are going away.  You should use the ttyS[n] ports instead.  USB ports are usually /dev/ttyUSB1, or /dev/usb/tts/1 (for devfs), but some devices use /dev/ttyUSB0, or /dev/usb/tts/0. 
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> You must also give non-root users permissions to access the serial port.  The command to do this is (as root) "chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0" for the first serial port, ttyS1, for the second, and so on.

The mention of “/dev/ttyUSB1” could very well be a Linuxism not applicable to OS X. OS X might not expose the USB ports as a device; I don’t know. This post says it does not:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11784248/mac-os-analog-to-dev-ttyusbxx