Oceanic OC1

[Ziggy]

Hi All

I'm completely new to both MacDive, Mac OS and my Oceanic OC1 (so I guess it's not much surprise I'm having "issues")

I've downloaded all the drivers for my Mac OS (just to be sure I got the right one) and they all said they installed fine. I plugged my OC1 into the USB port at the back of my Mac and got the usual countdown timer but no confirmation that a connection to a computer was detected.

I figured that wasn't a good thing but went ahead to see if I could download my dives anyway. After scanning for ports the only one that came up was "/dev/tty.usbserial-20030001" and when I tried to download the dives the following error came up:

Import Error
Failed connecting to dive computer on serial port '/dev/tty.usbserial-20030001' (Error Code: -6)

Is guess its hardly surprising as the OC1 never confirmed a connection but does anyone know what I'm doing wrong ....no doubt it's something trivial that I've overlooked but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Ziggy

[nick]

There is no confirmation that a connection is made - you need to choose Download -> Oceanic -> OC1. The serial port you selected is correct, and teh only other indication you get is that the OC1 goes in to countdown mode. That's also correct.

But I would remove all of those drivers completely, and only reinstall the correct one for your system. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a conflict there.

[Ziggy]

Hi Nick

Thanks for suck a quick reply. I'm completely new no Mac so not 100% sure of things yet but I believe I've deleted the drivers (I searched for the term "driver" and moved the ones I recognized to the recycle bin) but I'm not sure how to decide what the processor architecture is of my i3 processor...the apple website just says it's new (not that useful!).

[nick]

If it's brand new and you're running Snow Leopard, you want the 64 bit one. Actually I just checked and it looks like they all link to the same file, so it's possibly no big deal - but still, once is enough

Doc is here:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documen ... AC_OSX.pdf

There is a section on uninstalling drivers. Follow the VCP instructions, then reinstall once you've cleaned it all off. If you get stuck in those, send me an email (support@mac-dive.com).