Re: do macs still have serial ports?
Re: do macs still have serial ports?
- Subject: Re: do macs still have serial ports?
- From: Julian Vrieslander <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 14:59:53 -0700
- Fnork: garbanzo
- Thread-topic: do macs still have serial ports?
On 5/7/09 2:37 PM, "Xochitl Lunde" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The application I am porting to MacOS can monitor a Universal Power Supply
> (UPS) product. The UPS connects to a Linux computer via serial connection or
> a Windows computer using either USB or Serial. My question is, on MacOS
> should I build the application with serial support for UPS devices? My iMac
> doesn't seem to have a DC9 serial port on it, and I wonder if serial support
> is just far too outdated in Mac world to bother with it?
There are USB-to-Serial adapters which enable recent Macs to communicate
with devices that have RS-232 serial ports. Keyspan (now a part of Tripp
Lite) is one source for these adapters:
<http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/product-series.cfm?txtSeriesID=518>
They provide OS X drivers and sample code which can be studied for your
projects. Basic writes and reads are not that hard to implement, but if you
need to do anything fancy, it can get dicey. This is old-school technology,
and there is not much documentation on doing it with recent Macs. You might
be better served by programming for the USB port.
--
Julian Vrieslander <email@hidden>
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