MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and serialosc

[steinbruchel]

Hello there
It’s me again, but it seems that my post has been moved to another post entitled «Monome and Max 8»? Not sure if this is the right place for my query? Hope I still get some answers…

Cheers, Ralph

[alanza]

have you installed “serialoscd”? also, you should NOT need to download any separate FTDI drivers—the standard ones on Mac will suffice.

[tehn]

I might suggest upgrading to Mojave if you can.

open Activity Monitor and you should see some serialosc processes, yes?

[steinbruchel]

I have installed serialoscd and upgraded to Mojave. Below are screenshots of the Max console and also a screenshot of the Activity Monitor (serialoscd seems to be installed). Any clues please?

[tehn]

so serialosc is installed, yes.

the grid is not being detected.

open a terminal and type:

 ls -lrt /dev/tty.usb*

and paste the output here.

you mention you downloaded FTDI drivers, did you install them? you should not need to, but if you did, we should try removing them.

[okyeron]

Also you might want to try the monome home maxpat which should give you details as soon as a device is detected (plugged in):

monome-community/monome-home

[steinbruchel]

below is the screenshot of my terminal:

yes, i’ve installed the FTDI drivers, but when i look for them with searchlight i don’t see any of them. where are they hidden? thanks much tehn!

[steinbruchel]

thanks for the tip. this is what i get when my grid is connected:

seems like it doesn’t detect the grid (yet).

[tehn]

have you rebooted since installing serialosc/etc?

uninstall ftdi drivers:

cd /System/Library/Extensions
rm -r FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
cd /Library/Receipts
rm -r FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext

then reboot

[steinbruchel]

i’ve already rebooted several times. i deleted the file in the extensions folder, in the receipts folder it didn’t have a file. in the extension folder i also have this file: FTDIKext.kext should i also delete this?

to chek if the grid is working i open max 7 and open the patch grid-test. then my screen looks like this (still no grid detected). i’ve plugged the grid into a usb to usb-c adapter and the grid shows up in my system profile (under usb) as monome so it seems to be connected. when i plug in the usb plug i also get a short flash of a few lights in the upper left corner on the grid (but otherwise still nothing happening).

[tehn]

can you do

ls /System/Library/Extensions | grep FTDI

i’m on Mojave and have AppleFTDI.kext but not FTDIKext.kext so i might suggest deleting the latter

[steinbruchel]

i pasted this into the terminal.app:

ls /System/Library/Extensions | grep FTDI

and got this message:

but i don’t have a AppleFTDI.kext file in my extensions folder. my folder looks like this now:

unfortunately still not working. i’m quite frustrated and try to be patient, but very many thanks for your support. it’s very much appreciated!

rebooting after every move i make (just to be sure)

[tehn]

agreed, macOS is very frustrating

luckily it actually seems a lot better since Mojave, i’m sorry it’s giving you trouble.

try this:

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.monome.serialosc.plist

then type

serialoscd

now serialosc is running. try hotplugging in the grid, hopefully there are some notifications.

@artfwo do you have any suggestions for checking serialosc device detection?

[artfwo]

device detection uses the apple sdk, we’re completely relying on the OS to do all the work.

i can try making a shell script to check for buggy drivers and similar stuff, i think this would be a more elegant solution.

[steinbruchel]

then i get this message in my terminal.app: «command not found»?
not sure i’m doing things right here. i’m way out of my league…

will have to continue tommorrow! thx much!

[steinbruchel]

well, hello there:

figured i’d reboot one more time and did a hotplug and now it’s all flasyh lights and stuff.
yey! no idea what to do next but at least it’s connecting and i can dive into exploring.

thanks supermuch to the great community. so far a bit a stumbly start, but still excited!

[tehn]

gahh. so we have no idea how you fixed this.

glad it’s working!!

[FigrHed]

Just the other day my grid stopped sending messages to Max even though it would receive them fine and still lights up appropriately.

I eventually worked out this only happens when Little Snitch, my network monitor, is running.

I’ve been using Little Snitch, Max and the Grid together for a long time and this has not happened before. It must have something to do with an update to Little Snitch.

Has anyone else had this problem?

(I am on a Macbook, high Sierra)

//edit I posted this in a different forum but I guess someone moved it here…

[Rangdage]

Hi guys, ive got a problem : my I macHigh Sierra recognize my grid 128 but my mac book pro doesn’t do it now ( but it works since 3 days ago)…I installed updated java…but nothing work on the I mac…please help me

[tehn]

@dan_derks wrote up a nice debugging guide here: https://monome.org/docs/serialosc/setup/

can you run through these steps and see how far you get?