Running Davis Vantage Vue on a iMac

[captgadget]

OK, I've got CumulusMX running in the browser. When I go settings>station settings there is no USB option. How do I handle that?

And does CumulusMX run only in a browser?

And do I always have to run from Terminal?

[steve]

I do have a Mac, and I have run MX on it, but I am by no means a Mac expert, so someone else may be able to give you better answers.

OK, I've got CumulusMX running in the browser. When I go settings>station settings there is no USB option. How do I handle that?

You connect to it as if it was a serial device. When you plug your USB logger in, your Mac should create a virtual serial port, and MX needs to be told the name of that post. On Linux, it is usually /dev/ttyUSB0, and it will be something similar on the Mac. I don't think you need additional drivers for this to work. The dmesg command as on Linux should tell you the name of the device that you need.

And does CumulusMX run only in a browser?

The user interface does, yes.

And do I always have to run from Terminal?

Yes, because you need to run it using mono. But for all I know, it may be possible to create a command file which can be run by clicking on it - but that's beyond the limits of my Mac expertise.

[captgadget]

Thanks for your input. At this point I'm going to give up. There are a couple other options in my opinion that are much cleaner and easier to use. I don't want to have to have the browser open all the time and if terminal always has to run that's a pain. I think I'll go with one of the other two options. Had them running in no time at all

[steve]

No problem. I was going to add (and I've said this before) that as MX isn't a native Mac application, and only happens to run on a Mac because OS X is basically Unix underneath, it's not going to appeal to some Mac users. But note (mainly to anyone else reading this) that you don't have to have a browser open all the time, only when you want to look at the data. And a browser is only an application anyway