Thanks for your suggestion, I found what was the issue. I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.2. I had all the drivers installed correctly. But the VCP(Virtual Com Port) was blocked by my recent installation of D2xxHelper. A second High Sierra Macbook Pro with third party drivers installed worked with the Voltera. The drivers were for a quad-FTDI product. A Mac Pro running Sierra with stock Apple FTDI drivers worked with the Voltera. This computer cannot be upgraded yet to High Sierra due to an NVidia driver issue.
MacOS Tips CHIRP Beginners Guide The Beginners Guide has general help. Click here for the If you need Mac-specific help, you are at the right page. Join the Mailing list & search the archives for similar problem reports & how they were resolved, and/or ask the group. Please include enough info about the problem and situation so the community will be able to help you. Not all functionality is supported on all radios. See Application Security in 10.9 As of 10.9, signed packages are required by default.
Apple charges for this capability, and requires use of their tooling to do it. For the time being, MacOS users should disable signed package checking for CHIRP. Instructions provided by Jim, K2SON:. Locate the app in Finder. Right click (control-click if you don't have a 2 button mouse) on the app and click Open.
You will get a dialog box about it being an unsigned app, click the Open button. Enter an Administrator userid and password.
The app will now be flagged to allow it to be opened normally in the future. Alternately, you can disable them for your entire system, although this has security implications that should not be ignored. Instructions for this provided by Tom, KD7LXL:. Open your System Preferences. Go to Security & Privacy, General tab. Click the lock. Then choose Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere.
Application Security in 10.12+ As of 10.12 (Sierra) the UI for disabling app security was removed. The functionality is still there, but must be enabled from the command line. To whitelist a single application (like an unzipped chirp-daily.app):. unzip chirp.zip. control click on the unzipped application and select New Terminal at Folder. (Don't see that menu item?
). run this command in the newly opened terminal window: spctl -add $PWD Alternately, you can disable them for your entire system, although this has security implications that should not be ignored. Run this command in a terminal: sudo spctl -master-enable references: Mac USB Drivers USB to serial cables are not merely wire, they contain small computer circuits at one end of the cable that respond as a USB device and convert the data to serial. These cables are not all the same, so the computer needs a software 'driver' so it can recognize the cable and speak to it correctly.
You will need to install one of these 5 below. FTDI cables Note that with Mac OSX 10.9 'Mavericks', Apple provides their own driver for FTDI chipset. You may need to remove the OEM FTDI driver and use only the Apple FTDI driver, or you may need to disable the Apple FTDI driver and install the OEM FTDI drivers. Version 1.5.1 is available for Mac OS X on 64 bit, 32 bit and PPC machines. Prolific PL-2303 cables - official drivers for the genuine Prolific cables FYI: your cable, if using Prolific chipset, is more likely to be using a counterfeit chip than an original. Login as guest/ guest & look in the Support section. Specified to work with Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7, & 10.8.
Generic PL-2303 cables (counterfeit and/or “Generic”) If you aren't sure what kind of inexpensive cable you have, try this one first. For Lion (10.7.x), Mountain Lion (10.8.x), and Mavericks (10.9.x): You can try this one, which install open source pl2303 driver and remove any other driver versions: At this web page you may need to right-click or control-click to link to get it to download. After downloading, you may need to control-right click, then open in order to bypass Mac Gatekeeper. For earlier versions of Mac OS X up to 10.5 Leopard. Also some reports of success with Snow Leopard, Lion: RTSystems cables for OSX 10.9.x (aka Mavericks): see for OSX Look at the CHIRP log for clues. /.chirp/debug.log Join the Mailing list & search the archives for similar problem reports & how they were resolved, and/or ask the group.
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Updated Nov 22, 2015 with the new signed driver for OS-X El Capitan and Yosemite. Updated Jan 9, 2016 with Windows Drivers My golden rule is that if something took me longer than 15 minutes to figure out, then it's worth documenting in a tiny blog post so that it would save time to others, just like many other similar posts saved me million hours by providing simple clear instructions. Introduction – What is CH340G? Recent versions of cheap Chinese have been coming with a different USB/Serial chip, which replaces the usual FTDI. I read somewhere that licensing costs of FTDI make it prohibitive to companies selling boards for as little as $3, so I assume this is the main motivation.
To be honest, as long as I can talk to my Arduino and buy it for $3 a piece, who cares?:) Below you'll find links to drivers for both Windows and Mac to make these work. Please leave a comment, if it worked or didn't work for you, especially if you had to do anything special or hacky to make it work:) Windows A fully signed drivers for Windows can be found below:. Mac OS-X High Sierra (Added: November, 2017) Looks like the updated version from their site works now as is.
Here is the updated cached locally, but for other platforms, please checkout. Sierra (Added: October, 2016) The Version 1.3 of the driver available on the vendor's website causes a crash on Mac OS-X Sierra.
Thankfully, patched the driver, and made it available to the public. The updated and patched Sierra Mac Driver can be downloaded here —. Thanks to for posting the driver. Inside the driver is a brief README with the following instructions: Driver README CH34X USB-SERIAL DRIVER INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS Version: V1.0 Copyright (C) Jiangsu Qinheng Co., Ltd. Support System: OSX 10.9 and above Installation Process:.
Extract the contents of the zip file to a local installation directory. Double-click CH34xInstall.pkg. Install according to the installation on procedure. Restart after finishing installing After the installation is completed, you will find serial device in the device list(/dev/tty.wchusbserial.), and you can access it by serial tools. If you can’t find the serial port then you can follow the steps below:. Open terminal and type ‘ls /dev/tty.’ ande see is there device like tty.wchusbserial;. Open ‘System Report’-Hardware-USB, on the right side “USB Device Tree” there will be device named “Vendor-Specific Device” and check if the Current is normal.
If the steps upper don’t work at all, please try to install the package again. Note: Please enter System Preferences ➜ Security & Privacy ➜ General, below the title 'Allow apps downloaded from:' you should choose the choice 2 ➜ 'Mac App Store and identified developers' so that our driver will work normally.
Older Driver This older version requires some hacking in order to get it to work. I am leaving instructions just in case someone needs it, or the new driver does not work for someone.
Download the driver There are two main sites that people mention in the discussions about the driver:. Chinese company that developed it:. This driver appears newer than on the second link, and is from Dec 2013.
Note: for me that site took a long long time to load, and then it took forever to download this tiny driver, so I put up a copy here, so that you don't have to wait. Hopefully they won't go after me for mirroring their driver:). Second site is the Russian company that sells the USB programmer based on this chip: but this site only has an older version of the driver, from 2012, so I do not recommend downloading it.
Pre-Installation Note: the following pre-installation steps are only required on the two most recent versions of OS-X Yosemite and El Capitan. It is because the driver is not signed properly from Apple's perspective. We are waiting on the developer to update the driver so that these pre-installation steps are no longer needed. OS-X El Capitan Steps (only for the older driver!) These are not needed for the newer driver above. Reboot and press ⌘-R immediately after the chime to enter Recovery Mode.
Open Terminal from the recovery mode. run the command csrutil enable -without kext. Reboot.
See if you wish to know more details. Installation. Download the driver from here:. Double click the ZIP file do unzip it. Open the folder /Downloads/CH341SERMAC.
Run installer found in that folder. Restart when asked. Usage If the driver properly loaded, you should see the device in you /dev folder (this is for advanced command-line users of OSX only). On my machine it was called /dev/cu.wchusbserial1441140 This port is showing up correctly in Arduino 1.0.6 and Arduino 1.5.8. However, if you are using the Eclipse Plugin, it is not smart enough to list this port in the list of available serial ports (either in project properties, or in the serial monitor). You will have to type the entire thing yourself: /dev/cu.wchusbserial1441140 and then Eclipse can upload your sketch.
You should be ready to use the drivers and the board. References.