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anyone have a reefnet sensus ultra working under yosemite?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:24 am
by roger
I've never been able to download all my dives, only a few recent ones, but now under yosemite, I can't read my sensus at all, either with Macdive or the reefnet software itself. Anyone having any luck?
I also have a gps logger that uses a usb serial connection, and that software is reporting that apple made a driver change and broke a lot of stuff. Not sure if it applies here.
Re: anyone have a reefnet sensus ultra working under yosemit
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:36 am
by nick
I'll try mine tonight. Last I checked it was fine, but I don't know if I've tried it in Yosemite.
If you have an error message of some sort that would help. There's not much to go on otherwise.
Re: anyone have a reefnet sensus ultra working under yosemit
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:58 am
by roger
sorry, of course the message would be helpful.
I try to download dives (last settings, all dives, whatever, doesn't matter). I get the usual "beginning import" and spinning wheel, then after about ten seconds, I get the error
Failed to read dive computer memory (Error Code: -7)
My serial port is showing up, the usual one,
/dev/tty.PL2303-00001014
thanks.
Re: anyone have a reefnet sensus ultra working under yosemit
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:24 am
by roger
I'm posting this to a couple threads in case people are subscribed to a thread, so this gets seen.
Do not try to download you sensus ultra under mac os yosemite.
I tried to do so, using macdive and the PL driver, and it failed. Yosemite made changes to serial ports. After doing some troubleshooting with Kris Wilks (and getting a new serial driver from him), it seemed like it was working but downloaded no data. From Kris:
I can't explain for sure why this happened, but my suspicion is that the improperly configured USB adapter may have put the recorder into a state in which it was consuming more power than usual. This could have allowed the battery voltage to droop (temporarily) low enough to trip the internal reset mechanism.
Unfortunately, the reboot process involves a memory test which wipes the contents of the device. So I'm afraid any data that you had not already downloaded is gone.
I hadn't downloaded since yosemite came out, and lost about 40 dives (not to mention the really old ones that never downloaded at all).
This new driver from Kris at Reefnet may be the fix and everything may now be fine, but if you have valuable data in your Sensus, leave it alone until this gets figured out.