MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and serialosc

[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?

[ptorres]

i’m having a trouble similar to the one steinbruchel had.
i’m working with High Sierra, max 8 and grid 128 vari-bright. however following the link for the debugging is not very helpful. serialosc doesn’t seem to be installed as it is not shown on the activity monitor. i tried uninstalling and re-installing, but nothing. when plugging in the grid the upper left corner lights on rapidly and then goes off. when running grid test there is no device shown. it says though “serialosc running”.
would really appreciate any help.

[okyeron]

In terminal you could try this

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

And see if that gets the grid to show up in Max

[tehn]

did you solve your problem? (as seen by your sum issue?)

how did you solve this?

[ptorres]

i did. i had missed trying on the terminal what okyeron suggested. it worked with that. however, it seems that i must do it everytime i start max.

[dan_derks]

hi pablo,

sorry to hear about the troubles! the steps in the troubleshooting guide assume “normal” circumstances, which this definitely seems outside – you should not have to use a terminal command to kickstart serialosc and quitting Max shouldn’t unload serialosc.

• do serialosc-detector and serialoscd both show up in Activity Monitor after you execute launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.monome.serialosc.plist?
• if yes, do serialosc-detector and serialoscd both disappear from Activity Monitor after you quit Max? when do they disappear?
• have you tried using grid with another program other than Max, perhaps Mark Eats?
• did you perform the 3rd step in the troubleshooting guide? what FTDI drivers do you have installed?
• by chance, do you have any Wacom drivers installed?

happy to help troubleshoot through email, as well: help@monome.org

[ptorres]

hi dan,
thanks for your answer.
it seems that now everything is working with serialosc. the first couple of times i had to kickstart it through the terminal, not anymore though. not really sure what changed.