The article is here link: OS X Serial Terminal and includes more information than you probably care to learn, but it details the specific entry in the gettytab file to get everything working, as well as adding a few bonuses not covered in the original hint, including transparent zmodem transfers.

Dec 19, 2017 Connecting to the serial console on Mac and Linux uses essentially the same process. Neither operating system needs drivers installed. On MacOSX, Terminal comes installed. On Linux, there are a variety such as gnome-terminal (called Terminal) or Konsole on KDE. Kitty Terminal can be easily considered among the best PuTTY alternatives for Mac OS as it’s a robust, multi-platform, and a GPU-supported terminal emulator. The program transfers description to the GPU and makes the OpenGL to work for quick, multi-platform performance. Mac OS X includes a command-line SSH client as part of the operating system. To use it, goto Finder, and selext Go - Utilities from the top menu. Then look for Terminal. Terminal can be used to get a local terminal window, and also supports SSH connections to remote servers. While entering the serial port name into the code in arduino IDE, enter the whole port address i.e: /dev/cu.usbmodem. or /dev/cu.UG-. where the. is the port number. And for the port number in case of mac just open terminal and type. Ls /dev/. and then search for the port that u have set in arduino IDE.

USB to Serial for Mac OS X

Mac Os Serial Port

The driver for the cable can be downloaded from the Prolific website, however we have found an open source driver, which does the job and more over gives some better performance. We recommend you download the open source driver.

After you have installed the driver, connect your cable to any of your free USB ports. Mac OS X will automatically create a serial device, which can be found in /dev. Start a terminal session and list all available serial (or tty) devices available. Type the following:

ls -l /dev/tty*

Putty For Mac

Find the entry that is referring to your cable. Typically this should look similar to:

/dev/tty.PL2303-0002600D

Now that we have identified our new serial device, we can start connecting to a radio. Most people will use a Terminal Emulator, but as most of these programs were built pre-Leopard, you may find some difficulties running them on new(er) Mac hardware. We simply use the built-in screen program on Mac OS. So in the same terminal window, simply type:

Terminal For Mac

screen /dev/tty.PL2303-0002600D 57600

Serial Terminal For Mac Os Catalina

You can obviously change the baud rate or any other options to what you need to connect to your specific device. Ten-Tec Omni-VII uses a baud rate of 57600. We did notice that every time you connect and re-connect the cable’s tty device id changes.