When you first run Serial it puts up a dialog box asking you which serial port to attach to, if you don't have a serial adapter plugged in, then you'll probably only see a Bluetooth I/O port: The beauty of the this app is that you don't need to install any serial drivers, it just works. Installation, like most Mac applications, is by just downloading and placing the application in your Applications folder. I remembered Kent's kind offer and re-loaded Serial on my MacBook Pro and was amazed! Here is my review, at long last. So this review of Serial is WAY overdue.įlash forward to 2016 (three years later) and I've rebuilt my home network and just happened to need a Serial connection to my new Firewall. Sure to his word, he sent me a review copy and I loaded the software on my Macintosh but as life would have it, I just didn't need a Serial connection for a very, very, long time.
One of the things that came out of writing that blog article is that the author of a piece of OSX (now macOS) software called Serial, Chris Kent, dropped me a message after reading my article: The issue was that Apple changed the way the drivers worked under Mavericks and there were some tricks you had to do to get them working again. Back at the end of 2013 I wrote an article on Enabling a USB to Serial Port Adapter in OSX.
